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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
- Author(s):
- Beilby, Ralph, Bewick, Thomas, Cotes, Henry
- Publisher:
- Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick, 1809
- Open Library:
- View record.
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.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th century, Ardeidae, bird, black & white, reference book, wader