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The
Black-crowned Night Heron (in Europe, often just Night
Heron), Nycticorax nycticorax, is a medium-sized heron.
Adults have a black crown and back with the remainder
of the body white or grey, red eyes, and short yellow
legs. Young birds are brown, flecked with white and grey.
These are short-necked and stout herons. Their breeding
habitat is fresh and salt-water wetlands throughout much
of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. They nest in
colonies, on platforms of sticks in a group of trees,
or on the ground in protected locations such as islands
or reedbeds. 3-8 eggs are laid. These are migratory birds;
the North American race N. n. hoactli winters in Mexico,
the southwestern United States, Central America, and the
West Indies, and the Old World nominate race N. n. nycticorax
winters in tropical Africa and southern Asia. In the Americas,
N. nycticorax can be found as far south as Patagonia. |
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The
Black-crowned Night Heron (in Europe, often just Night
Heron), Nycticorax nycticorax, is a medium-sized heron.
Adults have a black crown and back with the remainder
of the body white or grey, red eyes, and short yellow
legs. Young birds are brown, flecked with white and grey.
These are short-necked and stout herons. Their breeding
habitat is fresh and salt-water wetlands throughout much
of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. They nest in
colonies, on platforms of sticks in a group of trees,
or on the ground in protected locations such as islands
or reedbeds. 3-8 eggs are laid. These are migratory birds;
the North American race N. n. hoactli winters in Mexico,
the southwestern United States, Central America, and the
West Indies, and the Old World nominate race N. n. nycticorax
winters in tropical Africa and southern Asia. In the Americas,
N. nycticorax can be found as far south as Patagonia. |
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