Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Hugh Taylor Birch Park

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron likes to hunt and feed at night and we occasionally see them sleeping in the daytime.  Here we found him trying to sleep in the mangrove today. I have added photos of another Yellow-crowned Night-Heron we discovered in Richardson Park in Wilton Manor Florida today. Note at one point, probably while trying to sleep, we see his Nictitating Membrane, the protective layer over his eye.

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