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Black-crowned Night Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

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Field Notes

Description:

Adults are light-gray birds with a neatly defined black back and black crown. Immatures are brown with large white spots on the wings and blurry streaks on the underparts. Adults have all-black bills; immatures have yellow-and-black bills.

Habitat:

Large swamp.

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