Black-crowned Night Heron

Order - Pelecaniformes
Family - Ardeidae (Herons)

Black-crowned Night Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

黑冠麻鹭 (hēi guàn má lù) / 夜鹭 (yè lù)

    Malay : Pucung-Kuak Biasa

    Japanese : ゴイサギ (goi sagi) / セグロゴイ (seguro goi) / ホシゴイ (hoshi goi)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 五位鷺 / 背黒五位 / 星五位

    Size : 56–65 cm; 278–1100 g; Wingspan 105–112 cm

    

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758)
  – C & S Europe and N Africa E to C, S & E Asia (to E China, Japan and Taiwan), and S to Java, Sulawesi, Timor and Philippines; sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. Some N breeders winter in S parts of range.
• Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)
  – S Canada (EC Alberta to Nova Scotia) S through USA and Central and South America to N Chile and NC Argentina (Río Negro); Hawaiian Is.
• Nycticorax nycticorax obscurus (Bonaparte, 1855)
  – N Chile (from Atacama) and NC Argentina (from Río Negro) S to Tierra del Fuego.
• Nycticorax nycticorax falklandicus (E. J. O. Hartert, 1914)
  – Falkland Is.

Nycticorax nycticorax ssp. nycticorax
Date : 22 June 2019

Location : Malim Nawar Wetland, Daerah Kampar, Perak

Nycticorax nycticorax ssp. nycticorax
Date : 22 June 2019

Location : Malim Nawar Wetland, Daerah Kampar, Perak

Nycticorax nycticorax ssp. nycticorax
Date : 29 July 2018

Location : Taiping Lake Garden, Taiping, Daerah Larut, Matang & Selama, Perak