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SpeciesPelecaniformesArdeidae
Birds

🦩Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Nyctanassa violacea (Linnaeus, 1758)

The yellow-crowned night heron is one of two species of night heron in the genus Nyctanassa. Unlike the black-crowned night heron, which has a worldwide distribution, the yellow-crowned is restricted to the Americas. It is known as the bihoreau violacé in French and the pedrete corona clara or yaboa común in some Spanish-speaking countries.

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≈ 1/91st of your weight
Also called
Yellow-crowned night-heron, Yellow-crowned Night-heron, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.68 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.68 kg
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Tail length
0.11 m
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Wing length
0.28 m
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Beak length
0.08 m
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Tarsus length
0.1 m
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Habitat
Coastal
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Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Volume l
0.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Yellow-crowned Night Heron yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyArdeidae
  6. ›genusNyctanassa
  7. ›speciesNyctanassa violacea
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyArdeidae
  4. genusNyctanassa
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyArdeidae
  11. genusNyctanassa
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In other languages
martinet de nit violaci (ca), kvakoš žlutočelý (cs), Gulkronet Nathejre (da), Krabbenreiher (de), Nyctanassa violacea (es), kruunuyöhaikara (fi) … and 20 more languages
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