Tag: night herons

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Birding Roebuck Plains from the highway

April 27, 2014 by Clare M 2 Comments

The main highway south from Broome towards Port Hedland takes you through the middle of Roebuck Plains, which is a wide open flat area...

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Yellow-crowned Night Heron

July 3, 2011 by Corey 5 Comments

Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks. If “The greatest prayer is patience,”...

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Black-crowned Night-Heron Eating a Fish

June 6, 2011 by Corey 7 Comments

It is not every day that one gets to explore Central Park with a friend, birder, and first-time visitor to the Big Apple. It...

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Black-crowned Night Heron at Big John’s Pond

July 10, 2010 by Corey 8 Comments

On one of my recent visits to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge I was fortunate enough to come across a cooperative Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax...

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What is a Night Heron?

May 8, 2007 by Mike 7 Comments

Eerie. Sinister. Unnaturally still. These are apt descriptions for those wondrous waders, the night herons. These stout birds of the genera Nycticorax and Gorsachius...

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