Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
Above and below: Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Smith Island, Somerset Co., Maryland (8/7/2010).
Below: A juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at North Beach, Maryland (7/28/2010).
Below: An adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Boqueron, Puerto Rico (4/15/2009).
Below: A juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron on Assateague Island, Maryland (8/9/2009).
Below: Courtship display near Hughes Hollow, Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/1/2005).
Below: Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron taken in southern Florida in February 2005.
Below: This adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was a nice find from a morning of shorebird and wader study between Truitt's and Vaughn North (7/23/2011). This was my first adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron on the Eastern Shore.
Below: Yellow-crowned Night-Herons nesting in Baltimore, Maryland (3/29/2012).