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Typical Night Herons
Nycticorax
Nycticorax is a genus of night herons. The name Nycticorax means "night raven" and derives from the Ancient Greek νύκτος, nuktos "night" and κοραξ, korax, "raven". It refers to the largely nocturnal feeding habits of this group of birds, and the croaking crow-like call of the best known species, the black-crowned night heron.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species
Black-crowned Night Heron
speciesNycticorax nycticorax
Nankeen Night Heron
speciesNycticorax caledonicus
Nycticorax caledonicus × nycticorax
hybridNycticorax caledonicus × nycticorax
Niue Night Heron
speciesNycticorax kalavikai
Mauritius Night Heron
speciesNycticorax mauritianus
Rodrigues Night Heron
speciesNycticorax megacephalus
Réunion Night Heron
speciesNycticorax duboisi
Ascension Night Heron
speciesNycticorax olsoni
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
History of Animals, Book I: On Viviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1554 · p.789
Historiae Animalium Liber III: De Avium Natura
Conrad Gesner · 1555 · p.644
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.652
Valeriano: Hieroglyphica (1575)
Pierio Valeriano · 1556 · p.305
Hōrou Apollōnos Neilōou Hieroglyphika eklekta = : Hori Apollinis selecta hieroglyphica, sive sacrae notae Aegyptiorum, & insculptae imagines
Horapollo · 1597 · p.154
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4979.