Black Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

            Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Southwest Florida
USA 

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. 

The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, is among the late risers of the avian world. If the early bird is truly the one that gets the worm, then the night heron would be in trouble. Toward evening, the black-crowned night heron leaves its roost to begin foraging and continues to hunt until first light. The night-owl lifestyle allows it to find food at a time of day when there's little competition. On the menu: fish, shrimp, mussels, leaches, rodents, snakes, frogs, bird, eggs, carrion and garbage. Wikipedia

Taken in: United States / Florida / Orangetree (show map)

Taken on: March 26, 2017

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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary 2017

Southwest Florida

Black-crowned Night Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

Stocky Birds

Active at NIght or Dusk

Social Species

Stick Nest Colonies

Most Widespread Heron

Late Riser

Night-owl Lifestyles

Eats Fish

Carrion and Garbage

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