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Black-Crowned Night Herons at Asiaworld (August 19, 2004)

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The sun shone the whole morning today at Asiaworld reclamation site. And the Black-Crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) took to the air with gusto, as if celebrating the brief respite from the rains.
Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
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Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
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Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9784.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
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Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9783.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9689.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9762.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9772.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9700.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9643.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9667.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9664.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Black-crowned Night-Heron Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.
IMG_9649.jpg

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Scientific name - Nycticorax nycticorax

Habitat - Uncommon, roosting in trees often near water during the day, flying out in loose flocks at twilight to feed in a variety of wetlands from ricefields to mangroves.

Lesser Coucal Scientific name - Centropus bengalensis Habitat - Common in grassland and open country, often perched at top of grass.
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Lesser Coucal

Scientific name - Centropus bengalensis

Habitat - Common in grassland and open country, often perched at top of grass.

Lesser Coucal Scientific name - Centropus bengalensis Habitat - Common in grassland and open country, often perched at top of grass.
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Lesser Coucal

Scientific name - Centropus bengalensis

Habitat - Common in grassland and open country, often perched at top of grass.

Chesnut Munia Scientific name: Lonchura malacca Habitat: Ricefields, grasslands and open country.
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Chesnut Munia

Scientific name: Lonchura malacca

Habitat: Ricefields, grasslands and open country.


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romy ocon19-Aug-2004 22:12
Thanks, Mal. The Bigma is really a fine poor man's birding lens...8-)
mal Jenkins 19-Aug-2004 17:52
Wow, don't think I have ever seen such clear sharp photos.
Have been looking at your shots for a while now and I am very very impressed.

Keep up the good work

regards

Mal
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