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The Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) belongs to the family of herons and egrets, the Ardeidae under the order Pelecaniformes.
Black-crowned night heron taxonomy
The Ardeidae is the family of herons. The family Ardeidae was first described by William Elford Leach, MD, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836), an English zoologist and marine biologist, in the year 1820.The family Ardeidae comprises three subfamilies, viz., Tigriornithinae, Botaurinae and Ardeinae. The subfamily Ardeinae contains eleven extant genera, including Nycticorax.
The genus Nycticorax comprises typical night herons and was first introduced by Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (9 November 1789 – 2 February 1860), an English astronomer and naturalist, in the year 1817.
The genus Nycticorax comprises two extant heron species, viz., Nycticorax nycticorax and Nycticorax caledonicus.
The N. nycticorax heron species is polytypic and comprises four subspecies. The Nycticorax nycticorax species was first described by Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, in the year 1758.
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| Binomial name: | Nycticorax nycticorax |
| Species: | N. nycticorax |
| Genus: | Nycticorax |
| Subfamily: | - |
| Family: | Ardeidae |
| Order: | Pelecaniformes |
| Class: | Aves |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
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| 1.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by Frank Schulenburg |
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| 2.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/) |
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| 3.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/) |
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| 4.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren |
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| 5.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by Calibas |
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| 6.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by Danbrazil |
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| 7.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by lienyuan lee |
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| 8.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by Kevin Faccenda |
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| 9.Black-crowned night heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Image by Charles Lam |
1.Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nycticorax_nycticorax_at_Las_Gallinas_Wildlife_Ponds,_looking_down.jpg (cropped)
Author: Frank Schulenburg | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 8/27/18
2.Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black-crowned_Night_Heron_RWD7.jpg (cropped)
Author: DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/) | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 8/27/18
3.Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ (cropped)
Author: DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/) | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 8/27/18
4.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildreturn/32530545733/ (cropped)
Author: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren | License: CC BY 2.0 as on 8/27/18
5.Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nycticorax_nycticorax12.jpg (cropped)
Author: Calibas | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 8/27/18
6.Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Savacu_(Nycticorax_nycticorax).jpg (cropped)
Author: Danbrazil | License: CC BY-SA 4.0 as on 8/27/18
7.Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waiting_%E7%AD%89_-_panoramio.jpg (cropped)
Author: lienyuan lee | License: CC BY 3.0 as on 8/27/18
8.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wasp7ty/28379819202/in/photostream/ (cropped)
Author: Kevin Faccenda | License: CC BY 2.0 as on 8/27/18
9.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kclama/1437727486/in/photostream/ (cropped)
Image author: Charles Lam | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 8/26/18
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