PB16 Black Headed Heron

Photographer: Peter Segasby.
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A cruise on the Zambezi River, and we came across this big bird. The black-headed heron is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, common throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. It is mainly resident, but some west African birds move further north in the rainy season.