I’m talking about a bird that few have seen and even fewer know much about. It’s the Black-Crowned Night Heron and it’s ...
The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) is a white and gray bird with a black head (hence the name). These birds love to frequent coasts, as well as inland waterways and wetlands.
Black-crowned night herons have been spotted on Scotland's remote St Kilda archipelago, as well as County Wexford in Ireland and Dorset in England. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO ...
Black-crowned night-heron. This predator is adapted to hunt at night. In the French Guiana this is one of the major night heron species with its cousin the Yellow-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax ...
Black-crowned night herons are rare in the south ... I zoomed in - blow me - they weren't bitterns. "I've never seen a night heron in the wild before and two birds together can only mean one ...