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    (c) Алина Урусова, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) Ad Konings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Vlastimil Lata, all rights reserved

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    (c) Corine Bliek, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Black-crowned Night Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

Worldwide
187,514 observations
Group
Birds
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About

The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia (where it is replaced by the closely related rufous night heron, with which it has hybridized in the area of contact).

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