Representatives from local environmental groups voted for the reddish egret to be the subject of Galveston's Washed Ashore ...

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter of birds, considered the snowy egret to be one of America’s surpassingly beautiful species. The egret, he noted, was also abundant.

Cattle egret birds bred for the first known time in Yorkshire ... beautiful breeding plumage and noticed the eye of one turning red, which they do just before they breed. "It's wonderful that ...