Subject: FWD: Re: Cliff-nesting Cattle Egrets
Date: Mar 10 20:50:46 1998
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets

>From EuroBirdNnet, a note on an interesting nesting-habitat preference,
cliff-nesting, in a species which shows no sign of such in N America, Cattle
Egret Bulbulcus ibis:

>...The colony of the Tajo (cliff) de Barbate, just south of Cape Trafalgar
>at the northwestern approaches to the Gibraltar strait is well known in Spain
>and well-established, very possibly dating from the last century at least. It
>numbers over 2,000pairs, with 40 or so Little Egret pairs as well.
>
>Ernest Garcia

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