Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Habitat:

They stay year-round along the coastal edge of their U.S. breeding range, in locations where the climate permits crab activity throughout the year. Breed in and near wetlands primarily in the southeast United States, in areas of abundant crustaceans including barrier islands, coastal lowlands, inland lowlands, forests with open understories, mangroves, and edges of lagoons, and they are regularly found inland.

Notes:

Patrolling the rocks on the shore.