11. They are the least known, most strictly nocturnal, smallest and overall rarest night herons . 12. Bird life on the shoreline includes yellow-crowned night herons , loggerhead shrikes, prairie warblers and shorebirds. 13. Pond herons and night herons can be seen along the shores with kingfishers and rollers. 14. The Japanese night heron prefers dense, damp forest, in both its breeding and winter ranges. 15. The yellow-crowned night heron was introduced in the 1970s to replace the extinct native heron. 16. Pied cormorants and night herons cruise the creek pools. 17. The night herons could warrant separation as subfamily "'Nycticoracinae "', as it was traditionally done. 18. Black-crowned night herons also nest on Pilot Island. 19. Night herons stand still at the water's edge, and wait to ambush prey, mainly at night.20. Surely elegant snowy egrets or black-crowned night herons would never call a place like that home.
