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WetlandPlatform nestLarge · 810 g
What the Black-crowned Night Heron sounds like
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Adults have a black crown and back with the remainder of the body white or grey, red eyes, and short yellow legs. They have pale grey wings and white under parts. One to eight (mostly two to four) long slender white plumes, erected in greeting and courtship displays, extend from the back of the head. The sexes are similar in appearance although the males are slightly larger. Black-crowned night herons do not fit the typical body form of the heron family. They are relatively stocky with shorter bills, legs, and necks than their more familiar cousins, the egrets and "day" herons.
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When to see the Black-crowned Night Heron
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-crowned Night Heron
The map shades 188 countries with regular records, and 11 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Norway, Finland, Luxembourg, Australia, Eritrea, Mayotte, Turkmenistan, Faroe Islands, Isle of Man, Jersey, Lithuania.
About the Black-crowned Night Heron
The black-crowned night heron or black-capped night heron, commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, including parts of Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In Australasia it is replaced by the closely related Nankeen night heron, with which it has hybridised in the area of contact.
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Easily confused with
Side by side: Black-crowned Night Heron vs Nankeen Night Heron
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