The Yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea) is a gorgeous graceful bird. More solitary than the Black-crowned night heron and often more secretive, this species is quite common in some parts of the southeast, especially in coastal regions....
The Bermuda night heron (Nyctanassa carcinocatactes ) is an extinct heron species from Bermuda. It is sometimes assigned to the genus Nycticorax. It was first described by Storrs L. Olson & David B. Wingate (2006) from subfossil material found in...
