Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*
Id (Atlas):
Nyctanassa violacea
Vagrant
Description (10 )
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
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Other Scientific Names
Nycticorax violaceus [Stotz et al. (1996)]
Family
Ardeidae (Herons)
Size
51 - 71 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical mangroves, saltmarshes, swamps, larger freshwater lakes. From sea-level - 800 m.
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B) (NB), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).
Vagrant to St Pierre and Miquelon (NB) (P).
Population
Estimated population is 76,000 - 160,000 (2020) and stable.
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (64)... )
Listen to XC569597
Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea ) [XC569597 ]
by Manuel Grosselet from Topolobampo, Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico (call, flight call)
Listen to XC144464
Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea ) [XC144464 ]
by Dan Lane from Comandatuba Island, Una,Bahia, Brazil, Brazil (alarm call)
Subspecies
Subspecies cayennensis and gravirostris sometimes absorbed within violacea and bancrofti respectively.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
violacea (Linnaeus, 1758) - Central and eastern US to eastern Mexico and Honduras.
cayennensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) - Colombia to north-eastern and eastern Brazil.
bancrofti Huey, 1927 - Baja California to El Salvador, western Indies.
gravirostris (van Rossem, 1943) - Socorro I (western Mexico).
caliginis (Wetmore, 1946) - Panama to Peru.
pauper (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1870) - Galapagos Is.
References
See References .
Files:
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For more information about the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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