cattle egret

noun

: a small Old World white egret (Bubulcus ibis) introduced into the New World and having a yellow bill and in the breeding season buff on the crown, breast, and back

Examples of cattle egret in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the late eighteen-hundreds, trade winds carried the cattle egret nearly two thousand miles from Africa to South America. —Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023

Three redheads, a cattle egret and a common gallinule at Hummock Pond, and two more cattle egrets at Bartlett’s Farm. —Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022

Four blue-winged teal, a cattle egret, and a veery at Squantum, two piping plovers at Wollaston Beach, six purple martins at Stony Brook Sanctuary in Norfolk, and a Louisiana waterthrush at Fowl Meadow in Canton. —BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2022

Worcester County: The region hosted a cackling goose at the Davis Farmland and a cattle egret on Redstone Hill Road, both in Sterling. —BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2021

Franklin County: The area also hosted a cattle egret in the Whately/Deerfield area, as well as one of the first seasonal reports of a Northern shrike at the Orange Airport. —BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2021

Plymouth County: The area is hosting a king eider in the Nantasket Beach area of Hull, as many as five sandhill cranes at Burrage Pond Wildlife Area in Hanson, and a cattle egret at Daniel Webster Sanctuary in Marshfield. —BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2021

Highlights included a cattle egret in South Hadley, four black vultures in Hadley, a common gallinule in Hatfield, and two evening grosbeaks in Amherst. —BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021

Other reports included a Philadelphia vireo and a mourning warbler at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, a common redpoll at North Beach, and a cattle egret at South Monomoy Island. —BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1899, in the meaning defined above