Definition of Bubulcus ibis

1. Noun. Small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals.

Exact synonyms: Cattle Egret
Generic synonyms: Egret
Group relationships: Bubulcus, Genus Bubulcus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bubulcus Ibis

Brønsted-Lowry bases
Brønsted acid
Brønsted base
Bsp6I methyltransferase
Bt2cAMP
BuSpar
Bua
Buarainech
Bubalus
Bubalus bubalis
Bubalus mindorensis
Bubba
Buber
Bubo virginianus
Bubulcus
Bubulcus ibis
Bucalemo
Bucalemu
Bucaramanga
Buccinidae
Bucconidae
Bucephala
Bucephala islandica
Bucephela albeola
Bucephela clangula
Bucerotidae
Buchanan
Bucharest
Bucharesti
Bucharestian

Literary usage of Bubulcus ibis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Under the African Sun; a Description of the Native Races in Uganda, Sporting by William John Ansorge, Ernst Hartert (1899)
"ad. Lake Nakuru, Uganda Protectorate, 23/3/98. " Iris dark brown." 23. Bubulcus ibis (L.) i Pongo, Lur country, north-west shore of Lake Albert, 24/10/97. ..."

2. Upper Egypt: Its People and Its Products by Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (1878)
"(bubulcus ibis), which always marches after herds of cattle at pasture, and was formerly sacred, the two egrets, the crested lapwing, the Egyptian plover ..."

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