Cattle Egret

Bubulcis ibis

"Native to Africa, Asia and southern Europe, the stocky little white herons first appeared in Surinam in the late 1870's ... The first documented record for North America was a specimen collected in Massachusetts in 1952 ... The first confirmed sighting [in Texas] was on Mustang Island in November 1955 ..."

This is a male.

This is a female.

Photo taken with a Nikon D90, using a Nikon 400mm, f/5.6 micro, manual focus lens.

April 29, 2011.