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= Yellow-crowned Night-Heron = This bird is nocturnal. It lives in the southern swamps and coasts. Can also be found breeding along the wooded streams of Indiana and Illinois. Has a black face and bill, with a white cheek. Has a yellowish crown strip. Gray body, and Yellow legs.They usually eat crustaceans like crabs and crayfish. They sometimes eat fish, eels, mussels, frogs, tadpoles, aquatic insects, snails, and small snakes It either stands and waits for its prey to swim by or wades in the shallow water and slowly stalks its prey. I found this information at

http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/yellowcrownednightheron.htm

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-crowned_Night-Heron/id/ac