7 July 2024
The day prior to this morning Mike Fialkovich discovered a juvenile yellow-crowned evening heron at Harrison Hills County Park. The fowl used to be simple to seek out in a shallow creek by way of the Creekside Path head at Forget parking space. Through the tip of the day 11 eBirders had stopped by way of to peer this extraordinary customer. Right here’s the fowl at nightfall.
Yellow-crowned evening herons (Nyctanassa violacea) specialise in consuming crabs and crayfish, particularly at evening. They’re generally present in salt marshes, forested wetlands, swamps and on coastal islands however they’re now not fearful about other people and can display up on lawns in Florida.
As you’ll be able to see from their vary map, their stronghold is in Central and South The united states the place they are living yr spherical. From there this southern customer is increasing north.
Adults discover out of vary within the spring.
Juveniles wander broadly, particularly in August and September. It kind of feels too early for a young person to wander up the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys so far as Harrison Hills however yellow-crowned evening herons retain juvenile plumage for 3 years so this fowl may not be as younger as we predict.
And he’s now not the primary extraordinary customer. This yellow-crowned visited in Duquesne in August 2019 and stayed for per week. Possibly this yr’s fowl will stick round for some time.
