BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON

Photographed on Cocos Islands December 2016

(see  864)             BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON             Nycticorax nycticorax

AUSTRALIA (Cocos Islands)            672

Found in marshes, swamps, rice paddies, mangroves. 58-65 cm. Found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia.

BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON

Photographed in central Bali October 2016

(864)              BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON                    Nycticorax nycticorax  

INDONESIA (Bali)         (85)        

Nocturnal and crepuscular; feeds in freshwater ponds and marshes. 61 cm. Worldwide except Australasia: part migratory; generally uncommon resident on Java, Sumatra, Bali, south Kalimantan and Sulawesi.