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Black-crowned Night-Heron

Posted by ikfong on July 24, 2021 at 11:38 pm
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Often seen in Taiwan by creeks and ponds, Black-crowned Night-Heron is very good at catching fish. Probably because of its usual hunchbacked posture, with its neck tucked into the body, some bystander once asked a birder “Is that a penguin?”. Since then it’s got a funny nickname: Taiwanese penguin.