Hello, friends, birdwatchers, and community greetings! Here is my photos of the bird this week.
A Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax. A resident of coastal wetlands also found around fresh water.
Around our house we noticed them often but they were very shy if they are in nature.
This one I found in Mumbai when visiting Veermata Jijabai Udyan and Zoo.
In Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo (Jijamata Udyan in Mumbai, Black-crowned Night Herons live both as wild urban residents utilizing the lush sanctuary and as captive birds within the zoo's aquatic exhibits. Jijamata Udyan spans roughly 50 to 60 acres of dense, centuries-old heritage trees and water bodies in the middle of South Mumbai, it serves as an ideal urban oasis for wild night herons.
During the day, the wild birds hide quietly in the shaded, leafy botanical garden's tall trees or perch along quiet pond edges and shaded corners. At evening after visitors timing finished they gather and become active. these photos taken at evening 5 pm so the one Heron was almost there for its prey.
They are more social in this area living with other wetland birds like pelican, ibis, heron, etc.
Thank you very much