Black Crowned Night Heron
by Joseph Hollingsworth
Title
Black Crowned Night Heron
Artist
Joseph Hollingsworth
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Photograph - Digital
Description
Averill Park is a large community park in San Pedro California. It's close enough to the Pacific Ocean to various collection of birds, land and sea. While walking through the pond in the park this BCNH asked to be photographed.
Black-crowned Night-Herons are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They’re most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world.
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December 22nd, 2016
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