A small short-necked heron that is active mainly at night.
夜鹭
Genus Nycticorax, family Ardeidae: several species
Example sentencesExamples
One of Wingate's biggest successes, paradoxically, involves the introduction of a non-native: the yellow-crowned night heron.
While there we found a black-crowned night heron (not the rarest bird on the block, but not one you see every day either).
We've also had the endangered yellow-crowned night heron nesting in the area,’ says Dyer, an avid bird watcher.
A pond near an amphitheater from Alexander the Great's time had a black-crowned night heron, a few little egrets, pied kingfishers and black-winged stilts.
At the pond there were a few white-winged terns, a black-crowned night heron, a purple swamphen, and some blue-cheeked bee-eaters.
Definition of night heron in US English:
night heron
noun
A small short-necked heron that is active mainly at night.
夜鹭
Genus Nycticorax, family Ardeidae: several species
Example sentencesExamples
We've also had the endangered yellow-crowned night heron nesting in the area,’ says Dyer, an avid bird watcher.
One of Wingate's biggest successes, paradoxically, involves the introduction of a non-native: the yellow-crowned night heron.
At the pond there were a few white-winged terns, a black-crowned night heron, a purple swamphen, and some blue-cheeked bee-eaters.
While there we found a black-crowned night heron (not the rarest bird on the block, but not one you see every day either).
A pond near an amphitheater from Alexander the Great's time had a black-crowned night heron, a few little egrets, pied kingfishers and black-winged stilts.