Order - Pelecaniformes
Family - Ardeidae (Herons)
Family - Ardeidae (Herons)
Eastern Cattle Egret
Bubulcus coromandus
东方牛背鹭 (dōng-fāng niú-bèi lù)
- Eastern Cattle Egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
RANGE: South and Southeast Asia and Australasia
Malay : Bangau Pendek Timur
Japanese : アマサギ (ama-sagi)
Kanji 日語漢字 : 亜麻鷺
Taxonomy update for 2023
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis is split into Eastern Cattle Egret (Bubulcus coromandus) and Western Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis). Eastern Cattle Egret looks strikingly different from Western Cattle Egret in breeding plumage, when it looks like its entire upperparts were dipped in butterscotch sauce. Western Cattle Egret by comparison, looks like it just ended up with a small amount of the same sauce on its crest and breast feathers.
The overall look is strikingly different and makes these instantly recognizable.
In non-breeding plumage, however, structure may be the only hope of correct identification: Western Cattle Egret is short-necked and short-legged, recalling a
night-heron or a Butorides heron (Green or Striated Heron), while Eastern Cattle Egret looks comparatively long-necked and long-legged and more like a slightly short-billed version of an “Intermediate” Egret (i.e., Medium, Plumed, or Yellow-billed Egret).
In fact, one vagrant Eastern Cattle Egret was misidentified and originally published
as Hawaii’s first Ardea intermedia.
The overall look is strikingly different and makes these instantly recognizable.
In non-breeding plumage, however, structure may be the only hope of correct identification: Western Cattle Egret is short-necked and short-legged, recalling a
night-heron or a Butorides heron (Green or Striated Heron), while Eastern Cattle Egret looks comparatively long-necked and long-legged and more like a slightly short-billed version of an “Intermediate” Egret (i.e., Medium, Plumed, or Yellow-billed Egret).
In fact, one vagrant Eastern Cattle Egret was misidentified and originally published
as Hawaii’s first Ardea intermedia.
Western Cattle Egret occurs widely in Africa and Europe, and is the bird that has colonized the New World. Eastern Cattle Egret is common from South Asia through
East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Either taxon could occur at islands in the central Pacific (although Western Cattle Egret has populated Hawaii and the Galapagos) or Indian Ocean; vagrant Eastern Cattle Egrets are known from the Aleutian Islands, Midway and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and the Seychelles, while either Western or Eastern Cattle Egrets can occur in parts of Arabia, Iran, and the “stans”.
Any records in those regions should be identified with care. :
East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Either taxon could occur at islands in the central Pacific (although Western Cattle Egret has populated Hawaii and the Galapagos) or Indian Ocean; vagrant Eastern Cattle Egrets are known from the Aleutian Islands, Midway and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and the Seychelles, while either Western or Eastern Cattle Egrets can occur in parts of Arabia, Iran, and the “stans”.
Any records in those regions should be identified with care. :
- Eastern Cattle Egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
RANGE: South and Southeast Asia and Australasia
- Western Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
RANGE: the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East
RANGE: the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East
Size : 46–56 cm; 250–510 g; Wingspan 88–96 cm
Subspecies and Distribution
- Monotypic. (Boddaert, P 1783, Coromandel)– S and E Asia to Indian subcontinent, Australia and New Zealand.
Date : 14 January 2018
Location : Seberang Perak Paddyfield, Daerah Perak Tengah, Perak
Date : 10 March 2017
Location : Malim Nawar Wetland, Daerah Kampar, Perak
Date : 23 July 2016
Location : Seberang Perak Paddyfield, Daerah Perak Tengah, Perak
Date : 18 October 2015
Location : Air Hitam Dalam Educational Forest, Sungai Dua,
Daerah Seberang Perai Utara, Pulau Pinang
Date : 13 April 2013
Location : Seberang Perak Paddyfield, Daerah Perak Tengah, Perak
Date : 13 April 2013
Location : Seberang Perak Paddyfield, Daerah Perak Tengah, Perak
Date : 14 March 2013
Location : Seberang Perak Paddyfield, Daerah Perak Tengah, Perak
Date : 14 March 2013
Location : Seberang Perak Paddyfield, Daerah Perak Tengah, Perak
Date : 14 March 2013
Location : Seberang Perak Paddyfield, Daerah Perak Tengah, Perak
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