Black-Crowned Night Heron II

by Dawn Currie

Title

Black-Crowned Night Heron II

Artist

Dawn Currie

Medium

Photograph - Digital

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Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. Face-on portrait of a mature Black-crowned Night Heron. Photographed in wild bird rookery at Gatorland, Orlando, Florida.

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Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) are small herons with rather squat, thick proportions. They have thick necks, large, flat heads, and heavy, pointed bills. 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.

THey often spend their days perched on tree limbs or concealed among foliage and branches. They forage in the evening and at night, in water, on mudflats, and on land.

The best time to photograph these birds are just after sunrise and just before sunset. Though I have seen them at other locations, I find that the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands in Viera Florida, the TW Goodwin Waterfowl Management area near Fellsmere Florida, and Gatorland in Orlando Florida (where this photo was taken) are the best locations for observing and photographing these heron.

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January 27th, 2014

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