Black-crowned Night Heron  Nycticorax  nycticorax 

 

 one of the breeding birds in wide range in Iraq seen in the open land during day its habitat is rivers, lakes and marshes with tree and dense vegetation nest in reeds or trees mostly seen hunting fish in the early morning we can see many of this birds around the fish lakes

This photo show adult Black-crowned Night Heron near fish lakes in AL-Musayib / Babylon governorate spring 2012