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I saw a large grey, long-legged bird with a long dun colored beak... What kind of bird is it?

Perhaps its most striking feature was a black stripe that started from its eye and went straight back perhaps three inches or so. Can you help me identify it and perhaps even link me to a picture?

Update:

I checked in wikipedia and it is not a yellow-crowned night heron. I don't think it had any sort of "crown" feathers, and it was essentially all grey except for that black stripe from the eye back (with no white around it).

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    1 decade ago
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    could look at yellow crowned night heron, if in the US.

    ...additional information needed. what are you doing using wiki for a bird identification guide. (just google image the bird).. what color were the feathers delineating the "striking black" stripe (how white are your white pants if you wear them for a week?)...what part of the world?? relative size?

    http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/DesJardin/Great...

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