The cattle egret is 45 to 52 cm long. It is a fairly small, compact, active, white heron with a short, often retracted neck. Outside the breeding season, the bird is uniformly white, with a yellow bill and yellow-grey legs. In the breeding season, the bill colours slightly more towards orange-yellow, the legs are also lighter then and there are orange feathers on the crown, breast and mantle. Originally, the species comes from Africa, where it inhabited wetlands, cultivated land and grasslands. The bird has spread across south-western Europe since the early 20th century (probably under its own steam) and also crossed the Atlantic in the 1930s, spreading across this continent in both a southerly and northerly direction, to North America within 40 years via South America. The cattle egret first bred in southern France in 1968.
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