#0711 · 🐦 birds

Black-crowned Night Heron

🇳🇱 Kwak ·Nycticorax nycticorax

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Kyle Nessen · CC0
2. © Алина Урусова · CC BY 4.0
3. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Corine Bliek · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © osirisv · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jim & Robin Kunze · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Isaac Krauss · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Parco Regionale Oglio Sud · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black-crowned night heron ( Nycticorax nycticorax ), commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia (where it is replaced by the closely related rufous night heron, with which it has hybridized in the area of contact).

base stats

NL sightings 137iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 186,601iNaturalist observations
weight 682 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).