| Abstract: | There have been few consistent reports concerning the frequency and success of nesting attempts by immature night herons of the genus Nycticorax . One-year-old Black-crowned Night Herons (Nycticonax nyctiocrax ) mated to 2-yr-old or older birds built nests and incubated eggs in the wild (Gross 1923). In a captive colony, many 1-yr-old pairs of night herons courted and built nests, and one pair successfully raised four young (Noble and Wurm 1942). One pair of 1-yr-old night herons laid eggs but did not produce young in a captive colony at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. In contrast, in a 3-yr study of a colony of about 350 Black-crowned Night Heron pairs on Long Island, New York, no 1-yr-old breeders were observed (Allen and Mangels 1940). |
| Genre: | Article |
| ProdID: | 1003045 |
| Citation Author: | Custer, T.W.; Davis, W.E. Jr. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center |
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| Citation Language: | English |
| Citation Larger Work Title: | Auk |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | pp. 784-786 |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Nesting by one-year-old black-crowned night herons on Hope Island, Rhode Island; 1982; Article; Journal; Auk; Custer, T.W.; Davis, W.E. Jr. |
| Citation Start Page: | 784 |
| Citation Volume: | 99 |
| Citation Year: | 1982 |
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| Text: | Nesting by one-year-old black-crowned night herons on Hope Island, Rhode Island; 1982; Article; Journal; Auk; Custer, T.W.; Davis, W.E. Jr. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg |
| Date Other: | Fri, 1 Jan 1982 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
