Black-Crowned Night Heron

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The night heron.

Artist

Name:: Bewick, Thomas
Dates:: 1753-1828
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Animals
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Bewick, Thomas
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: University of Pittsburgh Library System, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: A history of British birds
Authors:: Beilby, Ralph; Bewick, Thomas; Cotes, Henry
Publisher:: Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick, 1809
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Description:

Profile view of a black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) on the shore of a lake, or pond, against a background of vegetation.
The black-crowned night heron is a wading bird in the family Ardeidae. It mostly feeds on aquatic animals and small mammals and birds it finds at night or in the twilight hours in the wetlands where it lives.

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