Monday, January 21, 2008

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron


A nocturnal heron of the southern swamps and coasts, the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron can also be found breeding along wooded streams northward to Indiana and Illinois. Even though I just said this is a nocturnal bird I often see it feeding in the daytime. It moves very slowly along the waters edge looking mostly for crabs. This slow movement makes it fairly easy to photograph.

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