Black-crowned Night Heron

by Donna Kennedy

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Black-crowned Night Heron

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Donna Kennedy

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Photograph - Photographs

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Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy..

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) in the morning sunlight by the shore of Virginia Lake in Reno, NV

Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They're most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world.
Immature birds have dull grey-brown plumage on their heads, wings, and backs, with numerous pale spots. Their underparts are paler and streaked with brown. The young birds have orange eyes and duller yellowish-green legs.

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April 2nd, 2013

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