yellow-crowned night heron

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   North American night heron

   SynonymsNyctanassa violacea

   Broadernight heron

   Part ofNyctanassa

Questions about yellow-crowned night heron

What does yellow-crowned night heron mean?

yellow-crowned night heron means "North American night heron".

What is another word for yellow-crowned night heron?

Close synonyms include Nyctanassa violacea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yellow-crowned night heron a common word?

yellow-crowned night heron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.