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Old damaged Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, missing feathers, worn and tired, close up detail

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Lake Nakuru wetlands are a prime habitat for over 300 bird species and animals in Kenya

Great Egret in the natural surroundings of Orlando Wetlands Park in central Florida. The park is a large marsh area which is home to numerous birds, mammals, and reptiles.

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo feeding on seed pods

Two Sulphur Crested Cockatoo foraging for food on the ground

One pelican swimming through dead trees on a river

The great egret (Ardea alba) on the hunt. This bird also known as the common egret, large egret, or great white egret or great white heron.

Sulphur crested cockatoo resting in a tree.

A cockatoo looking over the shoulder of another eating a small green plant

$Great egret (Ardea alba) captured in mid-air flying over natural ocean slough, near spring nesting area.\n\nTaken in Moss Landing, California. USA$

Stork bird sitting in a dead tree with clear blue sky background, outback Australia

A sulphur-crested cockatoo, cacatua sulphurea, on a riverbank in Victoria, Australia. This parrot species is endemic to Australia, New Guinea and parts of Indonesia. Dark background with copyspace.

Young Western Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) amidst green branches on a tree - Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands

A flock of Spoonbill Egrets perched on logs in wetlands Western Australia.

Great Egret (Ardea alba) perched on tree branch. Blue sky in background. Morro Bary, California.

Wild Sulphur-crested cockatoo bird in New South Wales, Eastern Australia

The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae.

Great white egret or common egret in breeding plumage flying toward the camera. Photographed in Delores Fenwick Nature Center near Houston, Texas.

Sulphur crested cockatoo on the ground, eating.

$Western Cattle Egret.\nThe western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. Most taxonomic authorities lump this species and the eastern cattle egret together (called the cattle egret), but some (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.\n\nIt is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Western cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.\n\nThe adult cattle egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wider human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes ticks and flies from cattle and consumes them. This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases.$

Little egret by Lago di Caprolace, Circeo National Park

Royal Spoonbill nesting at the mouth of Waitangiroto River in West Coast New Zealand

$Great egret (Ardea alba) captured in mid-air flying over natural ocean slough, spring nesting area.\n\nTaken in Northern California$

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