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Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea Scientific name definitions

Bryan D. Watts
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated December 21, 2011

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Distribution of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron - Range Map
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Distribution of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Recommended Citation

Watts, B. D. (2020). Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.ycnher.01
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