Laura Erickson's For the Birds

This handsome little egret is not native to North America, but found its way here from Africa apparently on its own back in 1953 and quickly spread across the continent. It forages alongside large animals, especially cows here in America, but on other continents alongside camels, ostriches, rhinos, and tortoises. Cattle Egrets just about everywhere have noticed that farmers’ tractors stir up insects, frogs, and other small animals, and so they often follow tractors, too.