Black-crowned night-heron

3D Model

3D scan of a skull of black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax).

The black-crowned night-heron is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, including parts of Europe, Asia, and North and South America. Adult has a black crown and back with the remainder of the body white or grey, red eyes, and short yellow legs. It has pale grey wings and white under parts. Two or three long white plumes, erected in greeting and courtship displays, extend from the back of the head. It measures 58–66 cm in length. It feeds mainly on small vertebrates, crustaceans, insects, earthworms and mussels.

Specimen: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758)

Inventory number: AV 6901

Collection: Natural History Museum University of Pisa

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Scanned and edited by Simone Farina

Fotogrammetry