Thursday, 8 August 2024

Adult Black-crowned Night-heron

Black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax, 夜鹭).

There are many of them now, fishing in the evening, in the lakes and the streams. This one was fishing in the lily pond at Xianjia Lake: there are many other species of bitterns, herons and egrets there too and a flock of myna which swarms into the pond every sunset.

Black-crowned night-heron in Changsha