| Black-crowned Night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) |
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| Brazil and Chile The Black-crowned Night-heron is a fairly cosmopolitan bird occurring in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. 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. |
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| Photos 1 and 2 are of sub-adult birds while photo 8 is of a juvenile. The adults are more black, white and grey and the bill is pure black. Photos 6 and 7 are of the sub-species N. n. obscurus which is the darkest race with a grey forehead and grey-brown underparts. They feed on a wide variety of prey including fish, frogs, snakes, lizards, insects, shrimps, rodents, bats and birds. Although they can be active during the day they are mainly crepuscular and, as the name suggests, nocturnal. Photos 3 and 4 show birds flying around dusk. They were in a group of 12. |
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| There are illustrations in Hilty & Brown, Plate 2; and in HBW, Volume 1, Page 418. | ||||
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