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Prefectural Natural Monument
Birds
Black-crowned Night Heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
The Black-crowned Night Heron is a medium-sized heron with a blue-black head and back and white plumes trailing from the nape. Its Japanese name is said to come from an old Heian-period tale. Nocturnal, it hunts fish and frogs at the water's edge from dusk. Breeding colonies shared with gulls and other birds on islands in Miyagi are designated Natural Monuments.
- Scientific name
- Nycticorax nycticorax
- Group
- Birds
- Prefectures
- Miyagi
- 日本語
- ゴイサギ
- 简体中文
- 夜鹭
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The Black-crowned Night Heron is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Miyagi.
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