Black-crowned Night Heron Images and Information:
Nycticorax nycticorax
- Black-crowned Night Herons are short, stocky herons with thick necks and bills and heavy, pointed black bills.
- They are one of the most wide spread heron species in the world and are on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
- Adults have soft gray plumage with a black back, red eyes and a black crown. Immature Black-crowned Night Herons are primarily brown with large white spots on the wings and blurry streaks on their underparts and have orange colored eyes.
- Preferred habit for Black-crowned Night Herons are wetlands that include fresh and saltwater marshes, streams, lakes, ponds, swamps, tidal mudflats, lagoons, rivers, reservoirs, wet agricultural fields and rivers.
- Black-crowned Night Herons are opportunistic feeders, their diet includes insects, crayfish, clams, mussels, fish, leeches, earthworms, amphibians, lizards, snakes, turtles, rodents, birds, and eggs. They will also consume carrion.
- Black-crowned Night Herons are colonial nesters.
- Black-crowned Night Herons will lay 1 to 7 eggs which take 21 to 26 days to hatch. Both sexes incubate and are monogamous.
- A group of herons can be called a “rookery”, “scattering”, “battery” and “hedge” of herons.
- Black-crowned Night Herons can live up to 21 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Black-crowned Night Heron photos.
Immature Black-crowned Night Heron in flight against a clear blue sky
Title: Immature Black-crowned Night Heron in flight against a clear blue sky
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/25/2018
Flying juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron with Promontory Mountains in the distance
Title: Flying juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron with Promontory Mountains in the distance
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/10/2017
Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile on the road
Title: Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile on the road
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2017
Sassy looking juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Title: Sassy looking juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2017
Leaping juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Title: Leaping juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2017
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron on the auto tour loop
Title: Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron on the auto tour loop
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2017
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron near a culvert
Title: Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron near a culvert
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Agitated juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Title: Agitated juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile on a rock
Title: Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile on a rock
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Close up juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Title: Close up juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron Lifting Off
Title: Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron Lifting Off
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2016
Watchful Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile
Title: Watchful Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2016
Pair of juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons at Bear River
Title: Pair of juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons at Bear River
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2016
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron looking right at me
Title: Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron looking right at me
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/25/2016
A Black-crowned Night Heron flying over the refuge
Title: A Black-crowned Night Heron flying over the refuge
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/1/2015
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron landing in the Bear River
Title: Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron landing in the Bear River
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/13/2015
A juvenile Black-crowned Heron in a defensive posture
Title: A juvenile Black-crowned Heron in a defensive posture
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/13/2015
An immature Black-crowned Night Heron stretching a wing
Title: An immature Black-crowned Night Heron stretching a wing
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/13/2015
Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron stalking prey
Title: Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron stalking prey
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/13/2015
Black-crowned Heron foraging
Title: Black-crowned Heron foraging
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2013