Video shorts of Yellow-crowned Night-Herons (YCNHs) catching crabs along a jetty at Dana Point Harbor, California, on December 17, 18, and 31, 2021. I used eBird.org data to help document the YCNH presence in Orange County, California. Though the YCNH is common in other parts of the United States, it is still considered a rare sighting in Orange County.

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0:19 2012 at Bolsa Chica
0:31 2018 at other local sites
0:42 Yellow-crowned vs Black-crowned
1:00 catches crab
1:43 nictitating membrane (blink)
2:06 catches crab
2:26 night-heron stand-and-wait
2:37 Snowy Egret walks past night-heron
2:48 catches Striped Shore Crab
4:39 night-heron vomiting catch
4:48 night-heron swallowing back everything
6:18 END SLIDE

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