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A friend of mine, Jo Sievers, has just sent me two photos of an unusual Cattle Egret which he took near Lagos, Nigeria the day after I’d been there birding with him (more about which soon). Taken along a coastal road east of Lagos, the photos show what looks very like a Cattle Egret Bubulcus [...]

Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Lagos, Nigeria. December 2004
 
The Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis is a very widepsread species found from southern Europe (increasingly it looks like it may be well on its way to permanently colonising Britain) to Japan, throughout most of Africa, is increasingly rapidly thoughout Canada and the US (from its initial foray into the [...]

Intermediate/Yellow-billed Egret Egretta/Meosophyx intermedia
Mai Po wetlands, Hong Kong. 21 April 2008
 

 
Photographs copyright Charlie Moores