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

During breeding season, western cattle egrets will boast orange-ish red feathers on the ... known as the cattle egret), to distinguish it from a related bird in Asia and Australia.” ...

Cattle egret are white plumed birds that often follow cattle around ... breeding plumage and noticed the eye of one turning red, which they do just before they breed. "It's wonderful that we ...

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.