... The distribution of Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) in Guatemala, a species of African origin, has been documented by Smithy & Land (1960) and Crosby (1972). Distributional and natural history data for waterbirds were published by Salvin (1861Salvin ( , 1864Salvin ( , 1865, Oberholser (1918), Dickey (1929), Deignan (1933), Wetmore (1941Wetmore ( , 1945, Conover (1945), Saunders (1950), Tashian, (1953), Smithe & Paynter (1963), Coues (1964), Weller (1964), Smithe (1966), Dickerman (1968Dickerman ( , 1972Dickerman ( , 1973Dickerman ( , 1977, Biderman & Dickerman (1978), Jehl (1979), Zedekar et al. (1980), Wendelken & Martin (1986, 1989, Myers et al. (1990), Beavers et al. (1991), Beavers (1992), Howell & Webb (1992), Weber & Bucklin (1995), Palacios & Mellink (1996), Baker et al. (1999), , Eisermann (2003a), Komar (2003), Eisermann & Avendaño (2004), Herrera (2005), and Herrera & Ibarra (2005). Recent distributional data are published in quarterly reports on bird records in Central America compiled by Jones (since 2000). ...