#juvenile black crowned night heron

[sleepy-sluggo]

This juvenile black-crowned night heron was the first of this species I’ve seen lol

[spinus-pinus]

Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax

7/8/2023 San Diego Zoo Safari Park, California

[sebring5]

IMG_0009 by Henry Via Flickr: Juvenile black crown night heron

[graveyardrabbit]

[cazort]

In case people are curious, this is a young one. A lot of birds, this species included, start off their lives with camouflaged plumage. This is because the mortality rate of young birds due to predation is extremely high, mainly because the birds are inexperienced.

If they survive their first season, their chance of being killed by a predator declines greatly, mainly because they're birds, and they can fly! So once they know what they're doing, they're pretty safe.

But that first year is rough. So evolution has given them an extra boost of this camouflaged plumage. It's standing out now, but against a backdrop of winter vegetation it would be nearly invisible in many environments.

After that first year they develop bold black-and-white plumage that makes them easier to spot. You can find great photos contrasting adult with juvenile plumage of this species here.

Black-crowned Night-Heron at night! Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 5

[dinictis]

Deeply unserious juvenile black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) I observed a few years back, doing his very best at hunting plants. Good luck little buddy..

[mutant-distraction]

Ron Kemp

Juvenile black crowned night Heron striking a cute pose

Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Sep 12

[antiqueanimals]

Black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) (juvenile)

Part of a collection of watercolors by "M. Rabié" for St. Domingue Oiseaux. Dated 1766.

Internet Archive

[thewaterbirds]

Juvenile black-crowned night heron

2024, watercolor and gouache

"You wouldn't get it mom."

[meklarian]

Black-crowned Night Heron, juvenile, ruffled San Joaquin Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Irvine, California, USA July, 2019

(more herons here)

[admiralgiggles]

Naptime!

Everything is identifying this one as a black-crowned night heron. It has juvenile plumage, which makes it harder for me to tell because they look very similar in this stage. This one seems kind of on the bigger side, though. In short, it’s definitely a heron; I’m just not sure which.

[fatbirdpics]

Juvenile black-crowned night heron, Ushuaia

[sebring5]

IMG_0002 by Henry Via Flickr: Black crown night heron

[moon-snailsss]

Guess who went birding today :3

Juvenile yellow crowned Night Heron

Yellow-rumped warbler Ibis!

Fungus Tricolored Heron

Black vultures Mangroves

Please do not mind my awful binocular pics my camera did NOT wanna work today😋

Ebird list 💪

[aplpaca]

hello “𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔢𝔩 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔪𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔢, 𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔯𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔰.” person!!! I see you like birbs, care to share some of your favorites’,:3

I don't really have specific favorites but pigeons as a family are great, but I answered a previous question with pigeon pictures already so heres Black-crowned Night Herons, which are incredibly shaped and also live pretty much everywhere in the world except australia and antarctica. The field site I worked on in florida flooded for a couple weeks and these guys were literally everywhere at 5am. Just imagine ur driving in a wet field in the dark and every like 30 seconds you see like 1-3 of these guys at the edge of ur headlights

Extend Neck

this ones a juvenile. they look almost exactly the same as juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Herons, but have slightly different spotting patterns. But usually you dont actually have to look at the small spotting differences bc Black-crowned Night herons are like constantly doing their scrunched pose that makes them look like a weird oval with legs when resting and Yellow-crowned Night Herons dont do that

Love these guys

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 Long Pond