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Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Nyctanassa violacea

Photo by KristenBeck
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Field Notes

Description:

Yellow Crowned Night Heron
a frequent sighting at Round Island Park in Vero Beach

Habitat:

A nocturnal heron of the southern swamps and coasts, the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron can also be found breeding along wooded streams northward to Indiana and Illinois.

I see them in the day time as well- often roosting on the spoil islands in the Indian River lagoon

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PublishedAugust 11, 2013

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