Amy Lardner first heard the strangled squawking sound while walking near the Lincoln Park Zoo more than a decade ago. It was the call of the black-crowned night heron, a wetland bird found throughout ...

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OAK HARBOR - A black-crowned night heron made a rare visit to Ottawa County, stopping at Wild Wings Marina near the Lake Erie Shoreline. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources lists the ...

A Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) was observed bill-vibrating, a foraging behavior in which the heron submerged its bill tip in the water and rapidly opened and closed its mandibles ...

The scientific name of the black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) means “night raven” in Latin, reflecting its mostly nocturnal nature and its raven-like loud squawk. Black-crowned night ...

Teams of rescuers patrol streets in a California city on the lookout for black-crowned night herons fledglings. (Yeah, you read that right.) The official bird of Oakland sometimes need help when ...

It is always exciting to see a black-crowned night heron at the Warm Springs WMA because it is the only area in Western Montana that there is breeding evidence for this species. There are few breeding ...

STONE HARBOR - The world recently got a high definition view of the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary, and the star of the show is the black-crowned night heron, a bird the sanctuary said is rare in this ...

Eggs of Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) were collected in 1979 from two colonies in North Carolina, two colonies in Rhode Island, and one colony in Massachusetts. Mean ...