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Yellow-crowned and Bermuda Night Herons
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Yellow-crowned and Bermuda Night Herons

Nyctanassa

Nyctanassa is a genus of night herons from the Americas, especially (but not exclusively) warmer coastal regions. They were formerly included in the genus Nycticorax, but today all major authorities recognize them as different.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

speciesNyctanassa violacea

Bermuda Night-Heron

speciesNyctanassa carcinocatactes

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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 4998.