Very common breeding resident found in
paddy fields, marshes, grasslands and garbage dumps in lowlands and lower hills,
usually associated with cattles and buffaloes. Its association with cattles
mainly to catch grasshoppers and other insects, frogs and lizards etc. that are
disturbed by the cattles as they move about. It also feeds on ticks, leeches and
flies inhabiting the hide of the beast. Cattle
egrets roosts as flocks in trees. The breeding season is from December to May
and it breeds in colonies placing its nest on a trees growing in water. According
to the Deepal Warakagoda large number of winter migrants also arrive to the island
during migarate season (Warakagoda D. et.al., 2012)
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