Anyone know what type of bird this is?
Apparently it prefers Worms & Fresh Chive for Breakfast!
This bird has been stopping by to feed for the past week!
Joey edits:
from www.allaboutbirds.com
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Nyctanassa violacea ORDER: PELECANIFORMES FAMILY: ARDEIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
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A nocturnal heron of the southern swamps and coasts, the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron can also be found breeding along wooded streams northward to Indiana and Illinois.
Good Morning Gloucester 
It could be a Yellow Crowned Night Heron. I will be interested to see what others think.
Thanks for sharing!
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I think it is a type of small heron.
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The bird is a yellow-crowned night heron
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I think it’s a Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
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so cool, I’ve never seen one! I see Black crowned night herons from time to time but never one of these!
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Us Either ! It’s literally been walking around our yard eating for over 40 minutes! I just snapped more photos!
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That site says they’re usually around Illinois and Indiana. That’s a long way off
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Oh no is it lost… I’m busy spring cleaning… Does the site mention any foods it likes … Should I throw something special out to eat for it?
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They especially like Pasta Primavera…
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We have a black crowned night heron that hangs around the pond, but wow how wondeful to see this guy! Awesome!
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Yellow Crown Night Heron which are rare where you are. http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/yellow-crowned-night-heron I’m in Winston-Salem NC and we had some arrive about 2 weeks ago. They nest here which is even unusual.
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Where was it?
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in Gloucester in my backyard
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This a rare breeding species in Massachusetts and would be worth documenting if there is any nesting activity in the trees in or near your yard. There was a nesting pair a couple of years ago in East Gloucester, one of very few proven records for the state.
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interesting fact … maybe someone will do that!
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Very cool. I have never seen one either. Most of the yellow-crowned night heron’s diet is made up of crustaceans like crabs and crayfish. It sometimes eats fish, eels, mussels, frogs, tadpoles, aquatic insects, snails, and small snakes, so it is strange that it is in your garden, unless you have lots of frogs or small snakes. I would expect to see them at the water’s edge, like other herons. Maybe they do like pasta primavera and Wikipedia just doesn’t know it!
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