Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Black-crowned Night Heron

Nycticorax nicticorax can be found hunting and congregating in wetlands below Sonoma Mountain and throughout much of North and South America. The red eye helps distinguish them from Green Herons and they tend to hunt during dawn and dusk, avoiding competition from other herons and bitterns.

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