| Description 60 cm. The Night Heron is a bulky bird with short, yellow legs. It has black cap and back, its breast is yellow-grey. Its nape holds 2-3 very characteristic thin white plumes. Its bill is short and thick. In Hungary the Night Heron is migrant, fairly common breeder in colonies in gallery woods along larger rivers. Colonies of varying size also exist on fishponds and marshes across the Great Plain and in Transdanubia. Habitat Gallery woods, marshes, bogs, fishponds, canals Can be found in the following IBAs 02 Hanság 04 Kis-Balaton 08 Pacsmag fish-ponds 24 Flood-plain at Tiszaalpár 26 Pusztaszer Landscape Protection Area 29 Dévaványa plain 32 Hortobágy 33 Lake Tisza 38 Kesznyéten puszta 39 Bodrog flood-plain (Bodrogzug) | _210x300.JPG)
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