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Yellow-crowned night-heron Nyctanassa violacea
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Nyctanassa violacea
As the name implies, the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) is often a nocturnal feeder, but it is often active during the day as well.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Behaviour
No observations regarding Yellow-crowned Night-Heron behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Yellow-crowned Night-Herons ...
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron: Medium-sized, stocky heron with gray body and brown-and-white mottled wings. Face is black and white; crown is pale yellow and sweeps back as a plume. Eyes are large and red. Bill is heavy and black.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
(Nyctanassa violacea)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2000
This species is State Endangered. It is in danger of extinction as a breeding species in the state of Illinois.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea
Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Old scientific name(s): Nycticorax violaceus ...
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
Loons and Grebes
Common Loon (Glavia immer) ...
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
THRESKIORNITHIDAE: Ibises
White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) ...
The Yellow-crowned Night-heron occurs in most of the eastern half of the United States during the breeding season and in most southern coastal areas all year. Some individuals winter south of the United States to southern Panama.
The Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, despite its name, often feeds during the day. It usually roosts in tall trees during the day. It also nests in tall trees sometimes in urban areas.
Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron has smaller spots on greater secondary coverts, smaller spots on head and neck, thicker bill, and longer legs.
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON.
[Yellow-crowned Night-Heron.]
ARIDEA VIOLACEA, Linn.
[Nycticorax violacea.] ...
Along this walk we also saw aRed-billed Tropic bird sitting in a cavity of the rock with its tail extending outside the hole on the other side. It appeared to be on a nest. There was also a Yellow-crowned Night-heron ...
Green Heron, Butorides virescens
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (A)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Nyctanassa violacea
Least Bittern, Ixobrychus exilis
American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus (A) ...
The stout legs, usually yellow-green, become pinkish at breeding time. Easily confused with Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, juvenile Black-crowneds are mostly grayish brown, liberally streaked and dotted with white, ...
Yellow-crowned Night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea) June 2004
Rufescent Tiger-heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) March 2005
Zigzag Heron (Zebrilus undulatus) April 2003
Pinnated Bittern (Botaurus pinnatus) October 2004 ...
 See also: Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Bittern, Green Heron, Ibis
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