Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) |
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© Foek Chin Joe | © Stephan Ferrier | © Jean-Louis Rousselle |
© Frank Valk | © Frank Valk | beautiful pictures can be made at WNZee © Alexander Elias |
Aruba © Jan Hein Ribot |
Black-crowned Night-heron: During the day time this bird often rests and hides in trees in wet places, mostly in groups. The night-herons can often be seen resting near the mouth of the Sommelsdijk creek in Paramaribo. They go feeding at dark, eating fishes and shells. They breed in nesting colonies in the mangrove, together with other herons. The first photo of a Black-crowned Night-heron above was made by Foek Chin Joe in 2005, the second one by Stephan Ferrier in 2009, both along the coast in Suriname. Jean-Louis Rousselle saw a young bird near the breeding colony in Paramaribo in juni 2013. Ribot saw a flying bird in Aruba in March 2014. Dominiek Plouvier maakte de video van de Nightheron. |
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Video recording of a Black-crowned Night-Heron © ; |
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Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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The 215 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The 18 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |