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The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) [or black-capped night heron [citation needed]], commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, including parts of Europe, Asia, and North and South America.
Nycticorax is a genus of night herons.The name Nycticorax means "night raven" and derives from the Ancient Greek νύκτος, nuktos "night" and κοραξ, korax, "raven".It refers to the largely nocturnal feeding habits of this group of birds, and the croaking crow-like call of the best known species, the black-crowned night heron.
The night herons are medium-sized herons, 58–65 cm, in the genera Nycticorax, Nyctanassa, and Gorsachius.The genus name Nycticorax derives from the Greek for "night raven" and refers to the largely nocturnal feeding habits of this group of birds, and the croaking crow-like, almost like a barking sound, call of the best known species, the black-crowned night heron.
The word was used by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1555 and then by subsequent authors for the black-crowned night heron. [6] [7] The term nankeen in the common name of the species is defined as 'a type of pale-yellow cotton cloth, originally from China' in the Cambridge Dictionary.
Black-crowned night-heron, ... and their broad bills and weak legs reflect their diet and arboreal habits. Although their flight is fast, they are reluctant to fly ...
Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (NC) ... They are adaptable birds, with a mixed diet including seeds and insects. Black-capped chickadee, ...
Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax; Yellow-crowned night-heron, ... They are adaptable birds, with a mixed diet including seeds and insects.
Little egrets are mostly silent but make various croaking and bubbling calls at their breeding colonies and produce a harsh alarm call when disturbed. To the human ear, the sounds are indistinguishable from the black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) and the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) with which it sometimes associates. [9]