It sounds like the setup for a joke missing a punchline: What’s big and white and seen all over? One of the first things many Southwest Florida newcomers may notice is the abundance of large, pale, ...

Behavioral and genetic data were used to determine whether more than one female lays eggs in nests of the Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis). Eighty-five nests were monitored, and 18 nests with eggs ...

One of Alabama’s best bird rookeries is washing away. Cat Island, a shrinking sliver of land that rises a few feet above the waters of the Mississippi Sound, is home to a thousand or more nesting ...

The Auk, Vol. 107, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 334-341 (8 pages) Among 19 pairs of individually marked Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) ca. 3 in 10 successful copulations were extrapair. Extrapair ...

Here is a video and photo gallery from a roseate spoonbill sighting on the north end of Lovers Key Monday morning. It has turned into one of my favorite spots to shoot. The morning light falls at the ...

Glossy ibis are birds I never expect to see around here - they look like they should be hanging out in the tropics, wading through some Amazonian mudflats with their long spindly legs or swooping over ...

A very rare bird has been spotted in a nature reserve in Merseyside. A great white egret has flown into the RSPB Marshside reserve near Southport. It joins another foreign visitor from southern Europe ...