Photo by Gordon Tarpley (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLife Isn’t Fair<\/h2>\n
When not building nests, the Yellow-Crowned Night Heron will head out to practice their stalking skills. Don’t worry, they aren’t stalking their ex-heron friend, but they are sneaking around looking for mollusks, fish, crustaceans, insects and of course the odd frog. If stalking doesn’t work, they will simply wait in the bushes and ambush their prey as they come sauntering (or swimming) by. Either way, the hunting strategies of these birds don’t seem to be very fair for a poor unsuspecting frog or fish. I guess life in the wild isn’t alway fair, right?<\/p>\n
Life Isn’t Fair – Part II<\/h2>\n
Speaking of fair, the Yellow-Crowned Night Heron was hunted during the 18 and 1900’s since their mating feathers were a big hit amongst humans. Since then, the hunting has ceased but unfortunately, we have gone in and destroyed their habitat. You know those homes they stay in for 20 years….well, they are getting destroyed. Luckily, the population of these spectacular birds are mostly stable but who knows how long that will last if we continue to move into their coastal habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Yellow-Crowned Night Heron is a spectacular bird found throughout most of the Americas with a preference for the warm, coastal regions. Although, who doesn’t prefer nice sandy beaches, right? The particular bird is also known as the American Night Heron or simply as the Squawk, which is fun to say and probably has something to do with the sound these birds make, however, I am not 100% certain of this. The Yellow-Crowned Night Heron had a relative known as the Bermuda Night Heron but this unfortunate bird became extinct as humans colonized their home. Hopefully our featured animal has <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,2942,2937,2938,2940,2939,4025,2941,2936],"yoast_head":"\n
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