Calling For My Mate

by Dawn Currie

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Calling For My Mate

Artist

Dawn Currie

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Photograph - Digital

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Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. A solitary Cattle Egret in breading plumage calls out for his mate. Photographed in Viera, Florida.

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Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) spend most of the time in fields rather than streams. It forages at the feet of grazing cattle, head bobbing with each step, or rides on their backs to pick at ticks. This stocky white heron has yellow plumes on its head and neck during breeding season.

Cattle Egrets are native to Africa but somehow reached northeastern South America in 1877. They continued to spread, arriving in the United States in 1941 and nesting there by 1953. In the next 50 years they became one of the most abundant of the North American herons, showing up as far north as Alaska and Newfoundland.

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January 16th, 2018

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