Immature Night Heron
by Donna Kennedy
Title
Immature Night Heron
Artist
Donna Kennedy
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy..
A juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) perched in a tree 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.
Thank You to the Administrators that Featured this photo in the following groups:
-Animal Photographs
-Your Story of Art
-Just Perfect
-FAA Portraits-Birds
-Pure Nature Photography
-Animals and Birds in the Wild
-Coastal Water Birds-Shore Birds
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December 5th, 2019
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Don Columbus
Congratulations Donna, your work is Featured in "Coastal Water Birds-Shore Birds" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Dawn Currie
Congratulations on your feature in our group, Pure Nature Photography - celebrating the best of our natural world! You are invited to archive it in the 2019 Pure Nature Photography Featured Work Archive discussion thread for longer lasting visibility.
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