Black-crowned Night-Heron
(Nycticorax nycticorax) in
Bitterns and Herons
Photos by Bill Walker
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Palo Alto Duck Pond, CA, May 05, 2011
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Palo Alto Duck Pond, CA, May 05, 2011
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Charleston Slough, CA, Nov 03, 2005
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Palo Alto Duck Pond, CA, May 23, 2004
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Palo Alto Duck Pond, CA, May 23, 2004
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Palo Alto Duck Pond, CA, Apr 30, 2004
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Arcata Marsh, CA, Jun 16, 2001
Species Notes
From
Charleston Slough,
Feb 10, 1996
to
Charleston Slough,
Apr 15, 2013
,
we've seen Black-crowned Night-Heron roughly
9
times a year
at 67 different locations.
Mary returned from her first birding class talking about this bird, calling it Disney-like; the hunched-over posture, the gleaming red eye. We first decided to purchase binoculars on an early outing when we couldn't distinguish between a night heron and a styrofoam meat tray.
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