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Canon
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Canon EOS 5D
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f/7
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sRGB
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Aperture Priority
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No Flash
Focal Length
420 mm
ISO
500
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Multi-Segment
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1/510 sec
Date/Time
Mon 16 Apr 2012 08:10:11 PM EDT
Image Type
Canon EOS 5D
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72 dots per ResolutionUnit
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72 dots per ResolutionUnit
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Unknown
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English Western Cattle Egret
Scientific (Bubulcus ibis)
Order PELECANIFORMES
Family (Latin) Ardeidae
Family (English) Herons, Bitterns
Other name(s) Héron garde-boeufs, Cattle Egret
Breeding Regions PAL, AF, NA, MA, SA
Breeding Range Subregions s Europe to Iran, Africa, Indian Ocean Is., North to South America
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Armenia,Australia, Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahamas,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Barbados,Belarus,Belgium,Belize,Benin, Bermuda,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi, Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Cayman Islands,Central African Republic,Chad,Chile,China,Colombia, Comoros,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti, Dominica,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Faroe Islands, Finland,France,French Guiana,French Polynesia,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar, Greece,Greenland,Grenada,Guam,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras, Hong Kong,Hungary,Iceland,India - mainland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy, Ivory Coast,Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia, Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macao,Macedonia,Madagascar, Malawi,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Mauritius,Mexico,Micronesia, Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Montserrat,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal, Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,New Zealand,Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway,Oman, Pakistan,Palau,Palestine,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Paraguay,Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal, Puerto Rico,Qatar,Reunion,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saint Helena,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia, Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Swaziland,Sweden, Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey, Turkmenistan,Turks and Caicos Islands,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Uzbekistan, Venezuela,Vietnam,Virgin Islands,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758): NOTE(ENG,SSP: Change English name of Bubulcus ibis to (Western) Cattle Egret with split of B. coromandus. Includes questionally valid subspecies seychellarum (Vaurie 1963; Kushlan & Hancock 2005; Dickinson & Remsen 2013) which is recogni
German Kuhreiher
French Héron garde-bœufs
Chinese 西牛背鹭
Japanese ニシアマサギ
Russian Египетская цапля
Spanish Garcilla bueyera occidental
Portuguese carraceiro-ocidental
Bird Data App text A recently introduced species to the Americas. Generally seen with livestock. Roosts in groups of thousands in some places.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)