The great egret, a majestic yet stressed bird, strides through the city streets ... “You can see some bats flying this early morning because there is no traffic and it’s a Sunday,” he ...

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 are white plumed birds that often follow cattle around, feeding on the insects they disturb. The birds were rarely seen at Fairburn Ings until about five years ago, the RSPB said ...