Black-crowned Night Heron
Squatting on the water's edge, the Black-crowned Night-Heron is a short-legged, able fisher.
The Black-crowned Night-Heron is the second most widespread heron in North America. They’re most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world.
