Meet the cattle egret, a bird, that like many of us, isn’t from Costa Rica but came for a visit and decided to stay. The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), or garza del ganado in Spanish, is a stocky ...

The cattle egret is the foremost world explorer. It originally lived only in Africa. Prevailing trade winds blow west from there, north of the equator. When the colonists from the Netherlands began ...