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  • Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (protonym, Ardea Nycticorax), also known as the American/common night heron, the quawk or quark (an onomatopoeic term) or simply as the night heron, photographed at Texas City Dike, Texas (USA).

    Mystery bird: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax 2011

  • Response: This is an adult black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

    Mystery bird: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax 2011

  • Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (protonym, Ardea Nycticorax), also known as the American/common night heron, the quawk or quark (an onomatopoeic term) or simply as the night heron, photographed at Texas City Dike, Texas (USA).

    Mystery bird: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax 2011

  • Response: This is an adult black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

    Mystery bird: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax 2011

  • Other colonial birds are the Neotropic cormorant Phalacrocorax olivaceus, black-necked cormorant Phalacrocorax magellanicus, great egret Casmerodius albus, black-crowned night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax and common tern Sterna hirundo.

    Península Valdés, Argentina 2008

  • Mr.R. Thompson it is flown at kites and antelope: in Sind it is used upon night-heron (nyctardea nycticorax), floriken or Hobara

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Threatened bird species in these EBAs include white-eared night-heron (Gorsachius magnificus, EN), which occurs in southeastern China and north-eastern Vietnam, Edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi, EN) of the wet evergreen forests in the Annamese Lowlands of Vietnam, orange-necked partridge (Arborophila davidi, EN) of the South Vietnamese Lowlands, and grey-crowned crocias (Crocias langbianis, EN) of Vietnam's Da Lat Plateau.

    Biological diversity in Indo-Burma 2008

  • They serve as the most important heron breeding area in Italy for squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides), black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), and little egret (Egretta garzetta) (700 – 1,000 pairs).

    Po Basin mixed forests 2008

  • The endangered Japanese night-heron (Gorsachius goisagi), while not endemic or with a restricted range is also present in Palau.

    Palau tropical moist forests 2007

  • But they were neither infuriated nor offended, at least not openly, and Noyoki leaned forward in his chair with an eagerness that made Hadanelith think of a night-heron about to spear a fish.

    The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995

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