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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a reclusive bird belonging to the heron family. Close to the size of a chicken, bitterns are a mix of golden-brown mottled with delicate black and tan.

Carrie Carey of the RSPB on one of the most evocative sounds of nature. From deep within the swathe of reedbeds at RSPB Titchwell Marsh I can hear the low, mellow tones of an alto clarinet. There is ...

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 ...

“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 ...