ML340397461
Yellow-crowned x Black-crowned Night Heron (hybrid) Nyctanassa violacea x Nycticorax nycticorax
Contributor
Jon Fisher Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Los Angeles River--North Atwater Park area
Los Angeles, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Re-entering this as a BCNH x YCNH hybrid. Something didn't look entirely right to me about this bird, but I convinced myself it showed several YCNH characteristics and it looked quite different from a nearby juv. Black-crowned Night-Heron. At the time I didn't consider a hybrid, but a communication from Kimball Garrett indicated that multiple people suspected this was indeed a hybrid. In pattern it seemed mostly like a YCNH, but in shape it appears more like a BCNH- with rather short legs and chunkier appearance and shorter-necked look. Bill was all dark in color.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 450
- Focal length
- 357 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/125 sec
- Dimensions
- 3066 pixels x 2696 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.02 MB