Black-crowned Night-Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

Black-crowned Night-Heron are found in and around the Pond at dawn or dusk and at night 3

The Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia (where it is replaced by the closely related Rufous Night Heron, with which it has hybridized in the area of contact).

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  1. (c) Dominik Hofer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/dominikhofer/5530238630/
  2. (c) Jerry Kirkhart, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkirkhart35/2622991508/
  3. Adapted by prattcenter from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nycticorax_nycticorax

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