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 ...

Scientists tracking the shy heron species’ foghorn-like song have recorded more than 150 males across England and Wales, up from 11 in 1997 The once beleaguered bittern is booming, literally and ...

I spend the entire month of June on a boat watching the sunrise and sunset. I do this because I am leading wildlife photography tours, to capture images of Loons. I am so fortunate to be outside, ...

Bird watchers in the state have a reason to rejoice as the rare migratory bird — Great Bittern or Eurasian Bittern — has been sighted in the Ramnagar wetland in Bundi district. A Great Bittern flies ...

The bird was spotted using a recently-installed camera mounted on a tree One of Britain's rarest birds has been caught on camera at a Powys wildlife reserve. The bittern was spotted at Montgomeryshire ...

As its name suggests, the little bittern is the smallest species of the heron family: it is about 30 cm tall, which is more or less the size of a raven. Male little bitterns have a black-greenish ...