FEATURED PHOTO - HYBRIDIZATION OF A YELLOW-CROWNED AND BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MARY F.  PLATTER-RIEGER; TIFFANY M. SHEPHERD; MARIE MOLLOY

doi:10.21199/WB39.4.6

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Vol. 39 No. 4 (2008)

FEATURED PHOTO - HYBRIDIZATION OF A YELLOW-CROWNED AND BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MARY F. PLATTER-RIEGER^▸^▾
TIFFANY M. SHEPHERD^▸^▾
MARIE MOLLOY^▸^▾

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21199/WB39.4.6
Submitted: December 8, 2025
Published: October 1, 2008

Abstract

We report the second successful hybridization in the wild between a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) and a Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), and the first with observations of young on the nest.

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