Southern folks - need bird ID

[Wags]

Was hiking around the swamps in Iberia Perish, LA, saw some of these. Can someone ID? Thanks

[particleman]

Yellow Crowned Night Heron is my guess

[3d]

It's a Yellow-Crowned Nigh... GDAMNIT!!

[Will Collier]

That is the deadly Corn Dog Bird of the Bayou.

So RUN!!!

[GuyGene]

Just because I'm a native southerner doesn't make me a bird expert miley-laughing001:

Now snakes, that's my speciality. :terror:

I've seen those birds often, just thought they wee some kind of crane.

[Acer]

Yellow-bellied sapsucker.

[rgG]

It's a heron for sure.
We had a HUGE blue Heron poach all our fish from our pond.

[DP]

particleman wrote:
Yellow Crowned Night Heron is my guess

Yes. Nyctanassa violacea

[OWC Jamie]

Polly Likesdafish

[hal]

Awesome heron - I've never seen it here