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blackcrowned night heron

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black-crowned night heron

[blak-kround] .
–noun
See under night heron.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism

night heron

–noun
any of several thick-billed, crepuscular or nocturnal herons of the genus Nycticorax and related genera, as N. nycticorax (black-crowned night heron), of the Old and New Worlds, and Nyctanassa violacea (yellow-crowned night heron), of America.

Origin:
1775–85
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