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Bubulcus

Genus of birds

Species / taxontaxonQ947895

Also known as Cattle egret

Scientific name: Bubulcus
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Sources
1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-10-22
2.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 6.3
3.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 6.4
4.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 7.1
5.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 7.2
6.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 7.3
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Rank: genus
17
Sources
1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-10-22
2.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 6.3
3.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 7.2
4.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 6.4
5.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 7.1
6.Stated in IOC World Bird List Version 7.3
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Parent taxon: Ardeinae
1
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1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-10-22
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The cattle egrets are a cosmopolitan clade of herons in the genus Ardea found in the tropics, subtropics, warm temperate, and increasingly in cooler temperate zones. As currently treated, the clade contains two species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret, although some authorities regarded them as a single species. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, they have recently been found to be genetically embedded within the genus Ardea, and are now included there. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa, and southernmost Europe, the two species have undergone rapid expansion in their distribution and have successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.

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Different from: Bubulcus

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28 identifiers linking Bubulcus across the web's reference databases

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