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A Yellow-Crowned Night Heron wading in the shallow marsh along the river shore of Wakulla Springs state park on a sunny day in March 2013. The Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea, formerly placed in the genus Nycticorax), also called the American Night Heron or squawk, is a fairly small heron, similar in appearance to the Black-crowned Night Heron.