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Black-crowned Night-heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

Photo by Tom15
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Notes:

This night heron was flying across on the far side of a dike at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

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Comments (3)
Tom15
Thanks James and Jacob. I was lucky this came out ok, only having time to get one shot off before it was gone.
Jacob Gorneau
Your spottings never fail to leave me in awe. :-) Gorgeous find, Tom!
James McNair
Awesome. Please consider joining Birds seen in Florida http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/179406008

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PublishedApril 12, 2014

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