Cattle Egrets, Crows And Cows Relationships In SriLanka Stock Image

Cattle egrets are in symbiotic relationships with many animals. Egrets form symbiotic relationships with many different animals all over the world. Today they are he most wide spread wading bird in the world. Cattle egrets are small, white birds that sit comfortably on the back of a cow, an ox, or a buffalo. Cattle egrets sometimes hunt like other wading birds, catching fish and frogs along the water edge. But, most often, they follow herds of livestock to eat the grasshoppers that are stirred up by the cattle’s hoofs. Cattle egrets eat little bugs that bite and tend to bother the cattle. Frog peckers.