Juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron II
by Dawn Currie
Title
Juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron II
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
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Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron photographed in T.M. Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area, Fellsmere, 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 (where this photo was taken), and Gatorland in Orlando Florida are the best locations for observing and photographing these heron.
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January 27th, 2014
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Don Columbus
Congratulations Dawn, your work is Featured in "Coastal Water Birds-Shore Birds" I invite you to place it in the group's "2018 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!!
William Tasker
Hi Dawn! Great use of our Florida light! Great detail and those eyes! I also love the capture of the feet and legs! Superb! Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World. L/F