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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Nyctanassa violacea
29.3821, -95.5932
Field Notes
Description:
Adult Description
Medium-sized rather stocky heron.
Black face and bill, with white cheek.
Yellowish crown stripe.
Gray body.
Legs yellow.
Immature Description
Brown with tiny white spots on the wings and narrow, indistinct streaks on the underparts. Bill black.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-crowned_Night-Heron/id
Habitat:
Yellow-crowned Night-Herons live in or near wetlands—on the coast along islands, mangroves, and barrier beaches; farther inland in wooded swamps, forested uplands, and lakes and rivers, sometimes near residential areas. They usually nest in small colonies, sometimes with other wadiing birds, and forage along tidal marshes, in tide pools and the shores of water bodies where crustaceans are abundant
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-crowned_Night-Heron/lifehisto…
Notes:
He was busy eating a crayfish!
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