Black Crowned Night Heron 2 Abstract Impression
by Linda Brody
Title
Black Crowned Night Heron 2 Abstract Impression
Artist
Linda Brody
Medium
Digital Art - Photography Photomanipulation Photopainting Digitalart Digitalabstract Cafeart
Description
Black Crowned Night Heron sitting in a tree. Impression finish added. Taken at Santa Ana Lakes, Orange County, California. November 2016 on an overcast day just before a rainstorm. A birding ground is located at Santa Ana Lakes, a series of retention basins and fishing lakes.
Black-crowned Night-Herons are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They are most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world.
Adults are approximately 25 inches long and weigh 28 ounces. They have a black crown and back with the remainder of the body white or grey, red eyes, and short yellow legs. They have pale grey wings and white under parts. Two or three long white plumes, erected in greeting and courtship displays, extend from the back of the head. The sexes are similar in appearance although the males are slightly larger. Black-crowned night herons do not fit the typical body form of the heron family. They are relatively stocky with shorter bills, legs, and necks than their more familiar cousins, the egrets and "day" herons. Their resting posture is normally somewhat hunched but when hunting they extend their necks and look more like other wading birds.
Immature birds have dull grey-brown plumage on their heads, wings, and backs, with numerous pale spots. Their underparts are paler and streaked with brown. The young birds have orange eyes and duller yellowish-green legs. They are very noisy birds in their nesting colonies, with calls that are commonly transcribed as quok or woc.
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LEANNE SEYMOUR
Congratulations Linda on your feature with this artwork on the "Semi Abstract - 1 A Day" group homepage! You are invited to archive this image along with the date of feature in the "Archived Home Page Features For Members Here" discussion thread. f/l
William Tasker
It looks very natural. Nice. Thank you for submitting this wonderful and identified bird image that is now featured on the homepage of Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography Group - L/F