Nyctanassa is a genus of heron birds from the Americas, especially (but not exclusively) in warm coastal areas. There is one living and one recently extinct species in the genus. Previously, they were included in the genus Nycticorax .
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 Yellow-headed heron | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nyctanassa ( Stejneger , 1887 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The name comes from the ancient Greek words “night” and “lady” or “queen”. The nightlife of the yellow-headed heron and its beauty were implied.
Views
- Yellow-headed Heron [1] ( Nyctanassa violacea )
- † Bermuda Heron ( Nyctanassa carcinocatactes )
Notes
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 25. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
Literature
- Check-list of North American Birds . American Ornithologists' Union (1998–2006). Date of treatment July 29, 2007. Archived July 23, 2007.
- Holloway, Joel Ellis. Dictionary of Birds of the United States: Scientific and Common Names. - Timber Press, 2003. - P. 134. - ISBN 0-88192-600-0 .
- The Internet Bird Collection . Handbook of the Birds of the World. Date of treatment July 29, 2007.
- Peterson, Alan P. (Editor). 1999. Zoological Nomenclature Resource (Zoonomen) . Accessed 2007-7-29.
- Remsen, JV, Jr., CD Cadena, A. Jaramillo, M. Nores, JF Pacheco, MB Robbins, TS Schulenberg, FG Stiles, DF Stotz, and KJ Zimmer. [Version 2007-07-29.] A classification of the bird species of South America . American Ornithologists' Union. Accessed 2007-04-10.