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5 5/8-inch Night Heron
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This 7 inch Night Heron carving was hand-crafted from solid Basswood. Juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons can be distinguished from their young Yellow-crowned relatives by their browner upper-parts and bolder white spotting, thicker neck, paler, less contrasting face with smaller eyes; and longer thinner bill with mostly pale lower mandible. In flight, the legs of the juvenile Night Heron barely extend beyond the tail. Full adult plumage is not acquired until the bird's third year.
Reference
National Geographic Field Guide To The Birds of North America, Fifth Edition, Page 108
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