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Cattle Egret

Bubulcus ibis

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Ardeidae

The cattle egrets (formerly genus Bubulcus) are a cosmopolitan clade of herons (family Ardeidae) in the genus Ardea found in the tropics, subtropics, warm temperate, and increasingly in cooler temperate zones. As currently treated, the clade contains two species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret, although some authorities (particularly in the past) regarded them as a single species. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, they have recently been found to be genetically embedded within the genus Ardea, and are now included there.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 166,859France · 69,380Brazil · 45,274Italy · 31,906Switzerland · 473