Black-crowned night heron
| Black-crowned night heron | |
|---|---|
| At a rookery in Cape May County, New Jersey | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Pelecaniformes |
| Family: | Ardeidae |
| Genus: | Nycticorax |
| Species: | N. nycticorax |
| Binomial name | |
| Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Range of N. nycticorax Breeding range Year-round range Wintering range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ardea nycticorax Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), or black-capped night-heron, commonly shortened to just night-heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, including parts of Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In Australasia it is replaced by the closely related nankeen night-heron (N. caledonicus), with which it has hybridized in the area of contact.
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