Category:Rufous Night Heron

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[[Category:Rufous Night Heron]]

The Rufous Night Heron is a stocky rufous and white heron with a black crown and white head plumes when breeding.

ADULT: The crown and nape are grey black. A line surrounding the eye may be white or rufous. The face is white with rufous wash. The short, heavy bill is black. A facial mask consisting of the lores and skin at the base of lower bill is green yellow. The irises also are yellow. The neck is short and thick. The hind neck, back, tail, and upper wing vary from light to dark - pale cinnamon, cinnamon rufous, chestnut brown, maroon. The underparts are white, with rufous or similar wash. The under wing is white, with cinnamon rufous flight feathers. The neck and upper breast often have a pale chestnut wash, with the white of the undersides extending over the front of the wing. The short, thick legs and the feet are green, cream yellow, to orange yellow.

In breeding plumage two or three long white plumes emerge from the crown down the back. When fresh, the plumes are tipped with black. In courtship lores turn blue; irises are red turning orange; legs turn bright pink or red.

Description copied verbatim from: http://www.heronconservation.org/styled-5/styled-48/