Yellow-crowned night heron
Images copyright by Mark A. Chappell

The strikingly marked yellow-crowned night heron is a southeastern relative of the more widely distributed black-crowned night heron.   These were resting in mangroves or on mudflats or floating logs at the Ding Darling refuge on Sannibel Island, Florida, the nearby Estero Lagoon, and in Corkscrew Swamp sanctuary.

digital captures, Canon 1D Mk. II or 1D3, 500 mm IS lens, some with 1.4X or 2X converter, some with fill-in flash (2006, 2008)