Cattle Egret / Black-crowned Night Heron

Pelecaniformes

Place: Oristano, Sardinia
Date: 17 June 2017.





[Bubulcus ibis, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Cattle egret]

The sound of the cattle egret (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Joost van Bruggen)

[Nycticorax nycticorax, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-crowned night heron]

The sound of the black-crowned night heron (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Lars Lachmann)

Distribution and sightings of the cattle egret across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution of the black-crowned night heron across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).