The American Bittern’s “pumper-lunk” call has got to be one of the strangest sounds I have ever heard. When I first heard it, I thought the sound was coming from some kind of oddball frog, but when I ...

A near-extinct breed of bird has been heard making a mating call following a nationwide conservation effort. A "booming" mating call from a male Bittern was heard at Amwell Nature Reserve, in Great ...

Staff at a wildlife reserve on Stockton have been celebrating hearing the mating sounds of the loudest bird in Britain for the first time. The distinctive "booming" call of the male bittern was last ...

An Australasian Bittern chick hatched in a rice bay.(Matt Herring) The Australasian bittern is a strange bird. It has a low, loud call, and has been known to use grass stalks as tools. Strangest of ...

Bittern are a rare sight to see, but Hawke's Bay locals are trying to turn that trend around. Photo / File Standing on the banks of Hawke's Bay's Lake Whaatuma, as the sun starts to dip behind the ...

“Song of the Yellow Bittern” is a young poet’s play, full of fine talk and song and flashing images but short on substance. Irish playwright Vincent Woods, who also wrote “At the Black Pig’s Dyke,” is ...

In a swamp just north of Newcastle a team of researchers is on the hunt for one of Australia's most secretive wetland birds, the Australasian bittern. The endangered Australasian bittern is the focus ...

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