tags: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, birds, Central Park, Image of the Day
The photographer, Bob Levy, writes;
Here's a Black-crowned Night Heron fledgling demonstrating how to best scratch an itch with what one has available. In this case it's a carefully retracted leg and sinewy foot.
GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived 




















