Black-crowned Night Heron

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Black-crowned Night Heron
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Habitat
The black-crowned night heron lives in fresh and saltwater marshes, swamps, lakes and wooded streams.

Diet
The black-crowned night heron hunts for food in the early morning hours and at dusk. It stands and waits for prey like frogs and fish to pass by and them snatches them up with its bill. It sometimes raids the nests of other herons and birds and steals the chicks. It also eats amphibians, crustaceans, insects and small mammals.

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