Bird / Nycticorax nycticorax
Black-Crowned Night Heron
Lowest risk
Native
The black-crowned night heron, or black-capped night heron, commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia.
- Average mass
- 800 g
- Average eggs per season
- 4
- Average time to hatching
- 25 days
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
Sex: female - 730 days
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
Sex: male - 730 days
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - 253 months
Ivory, A. 2002. "Nycticorax nycticorax" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Nycticorax_nycticorax/
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