Black Crowned Night Heron |
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Description
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22-27",(Wing span 3'8"). Medium-sized heron. Audult slate-gray with black head, white cheeks, yellowish crown and plumes, black bill,and yellow or orange legs. In flight, feetand part of legs extend beyond tail. Immature grayish brown, finely speckeld with white above. Young Black-crowned Night Herons similar but browner, with legs and feet that scarcely project beyond tail in flight. |
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Voice
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A loud quawk!
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Habitat
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Wooden swamps and coastal
thickets.
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Nesting
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3-5 blue-green eggs in a nest of sticks in a tree or occasionally
on the ground. Nesting singly or in small colonies, occasionally with
other herons.
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Other
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Other
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