Black-crowned
Night Heron
(Nycticoraxnycticorax)
Photographed at
Reid Zoo, Tucson, Arizonia Mar 2010
Jamaica on the Black River Aug 2013
Kahala, Hawaii Mar 2014
Black-crowned Night-Herons do not fit
the typical body form of the heron family. They are relatively stocky with
shorter bills, legs and necks unlike their more familiar cousins the egrets and
"day" herons. Their resting posture is normally somewhat hunched but
when hunting they extend their necks and look more like other wading birds.
Adult Black-crowned Night-Herons have
black caps and backs, pale grey wings, white under parts, red eyes and yellow
legs. Two or three long white plumes, erected in greeting and courtship
displays, extend from the back of the head.
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