Black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax. De Avibus, Nycticorax non veteru sed. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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