Chin and Cheeks

by Donna Kennedy

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Chin and Cheeks

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Donna Kennedy

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Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy...
Black-crowned Night Heron resting in a tree near Hermans Pond at Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno, Nevada 120

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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January 11th, 2015

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