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Definition of night heron in English: night heronnoun A small short-necked heron that is active mainly at night. Genus Nycticorax, family Ardeidae: several species Example sentencesExamples - One of Wingate's biggest successes, paradoxically, involves the introduction of a non-native: the yellow-crowned night heron.
- While there we found a black-crowned night heron (not the rarest bird on the block, but not one you see every day either).
- We've also had the endangered yellow-crowned night heron nesting in the area,’ says Dyer, an avid bird watcher.
- A pond near an amphitheater from Alexander the Great's time had a black-crowned night heron, a few little egrets, pied kingfishers and black-winged stilts.
- At the pond there were a few white-winged terns, a black-crowned night heron, a purple swamphen, and some blue-cheeked bee-eaters.
Definition of night heron in US English: night heronnoun A small short-necked heron that is active mainly at night. Genus Nycticorax, family Ardeidae: several species Example sentencesExamples - We've also had the endangered yellow-crowned night heron nesting in the area,’ says Dyer, an avid bird watcher.
- One of Wingate's biggest successes, paradoxically, involves the introduction of a non-native: the yellow-crowned night heron.
- At the pond there were a few white-winged terns, a black-crowned night heron, a purple swamphen, and some blue-cheeked bee-eaters.
- While there we found a black-crowned night heron (not the rarest bird on the block, but not one you see every day either).
- A pond near an amphitheater from Alexander the Great's time had a black-crowned night heron, a few little egrets, pied kingfishers and black-winged stilts.
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