Registered: March 2005 Location: Zegema Beach, MaryLand Posts: 197 users gallery
The yellow-crowned night heron is a short, stocky wading bird about 24 inches in length with a wingspan of a little under four feet. It has long yellow to orange legs, red eyes, a black bill, and a short neck. It has a slate gray body, a black head with a white streak on the side of its face and a yellowish-white crown. In breeding season it has a yellow plume of feathers on its head. Males and females look alike. Immature yellow-crowned night herons are a mottled grayish-brown.
The yellow-crowned night heron forages for food both in the day and at night. Most of the yellow-crowned night heron's diet is made up of crustaceans like crabs and crayfish. It sometimes eats fish, eels, mussels, frogs, tadpoles, aquatic insects, snails, and small snakes. It either stands and waits for its prey to swim by or wades in the shallow water and slowly stalks its prey.
The yellow-crowned night heron is more solitary than other herons. It prefers to nest separately from other birds.
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Registered: March 2005 Location: Zegema Beach, MaryLand Posts: 197
Sun June 24, 2007 3:26am
thanks Chris, i actually emailed someone i know about birds and asked him to ID this bird but i haven't gotten a reply from him.
thanks for ID'ing. and this is my first sighting and photographed this bird, i have plenty of the black crowned night heron which is more common in the area where i live.
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No problem. The yellow crown is a bird I would like to add to my files. We have them here but like in your area, not as many as the black crown. I have to get out to some of there areas were they are reported to be.
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