In 2023, ornithologists split Cattle Egret into two species: Western Cattle-Egret and Eastern Cattle-Egret. Western-Cattle Egret occurs in Africa, western Asia, southern Europe, and the Americas. Eastern Cattle-Egret, meanwhile, inhabits southern and eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Cattle-Egret/overview
I have always known this bird as a Cattle Egret and will probably continue to call it that and not the newly named Western Cattle Egret.
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