Black-crowned Night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax

Black-crowned Night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax

Lake Alarobia, Madagascar
November 2016

The Black-crowned Night Heron is a fairly cosmopolitan bird occurring in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. There are 4 subspecies with the nominate occurring in the Old World, N.n. hoactli in North and most of South America, N.n. obscurus in Chile and Argentina and N.n. falklandicus in the Falkland Islands.

So these photos are of the nominate sub-species with photo 1 being of and adult and photo 2 of a juvenile.

See further information and photos from South America here.

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