新英格蘭水族館

2023年7月18日

“我絆倒嗎? ? ?我很確定我今晚見到一隻企鵝在波士頓。你可能已經看到他們在新英格蘭水族館,當然,但你曾經遇到了一隻企鵝的街道上波士頓?最近twitter用戶@_rachelgallegos認為他們所做的,分享兩個黑白鳥的照片,乍一看,當然看起來不會飛的最愛。“我絆倒嗎? ? ?我很確定我看見一隻企鵝在波士頓今晚,”他們寫道。在星期天。然而,任何“快樂的大腳”或“先生。波普爾的企鵝幻想破滅時,波士頓311重。“哇! We hit base with @AnimalBoston about this one – it may be a night heron,” the city service center tweeted in response. “Penguins usually can’t perch like this because of their webbed feet.” Black-crowned night heron, known for its black crown and back. – Derrick Z. Jackson for the Boston Globe, file According to the National Audubon Society, black-crowned night herons can be found throughout most of the United States. “Cosmopolitan species” nest on every continent except Australia and Antarctica and can be found in a wide variety of aquatic habitats, per Audubon. “Viewed by day, these large herons appear dull and lethargic, with groups sitting hunched and motionless in trees near water,” the organization notes. “They become more active at dusk, flying to foraging sites, calling ‘wok’ as they pass high in the dark.” (For the record, wild penguins mostly stay in the southern hemisphere; according to Audubon, the northernmost type, the Galapagos penguin, is found just below the equator on the islands of Fernandina and Isabela.) “I actually didn’t see a penguin,” @_rachelgallegos conceded on Tuesday. “BUT IT looked like one.” Newsletter Sign-Up