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The yellow-crowned night heron is a southeastern relative of the more widely distributed black-crowned night heron. Yellow-crowns are especially fond of mangroves, and most of these images were taken in mangrove forests or close to them. Adults are strikingly marked; juveniles are brownish-gray and streaked, quite similar to juvenile black-crowned night herons. Their large eyes give excellent night vision. 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. The juvenile on the barnacle-covered rock was north of the species' usual range, at Bolsa Chica wetlands in Orange County, California. |
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