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Animal Qualities

Tactical action

Follow the stir.

Animals grouped here express a similar quality through their behavior in nature. Each species still has its own principle, lesson, meaning, and field-guide page.

2 species

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Cattle Egret

Species principle: Opportunity

Follow the stir.

Watch what movement reveals, then take the opening before it closes.

Cattle Egrets often forage near grazing mammals and livestock, catching insects and small prey disturbed by the animals’ movement through grass or soil.

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Snowy Egret

Species principle: Provocation

Stir the shallows.

Sometimes opportunity appears because you disturb the water on purpose.

Snowy Egrets often use their bright yellow feet to stir shallow water or mud, flushing small fish and invertebrates that they then catch with quick strikes.

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