Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Black-crowned Night Heron

N. nycticorax; Family:Ardeidae; Order:Ciconiiformes
The Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax; simplified Chinese: 夜鷺; pinyin: yèlù ) commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia (where replaced by the closely related Rufous Night Heron, with which it has hybridized in the area of contact).

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