Bittern NYMR Pickering

It's in there - honest!

A small bird, about the size of a Moorhen.

American Bittern

Spencer Island Park, WA

Brazos Bend SP

Fort Bend County, Texas

March 2015

Just as I was getting ready to give up finding this bird, it actually flew right in front of me. Wow!

Leighton Moss Lower hide

Green Cay Wetlands, FL

Merritt Island NWR, FL

Titchfield Haven NNR

This is not something often caught! Yellow Bitterns hang out at our sites, but in an average banding year, perhaps one will be caught. If it weren't for the long neck and long legs, they would be the same size as a pigeon.

Quinta Do Lago - Portugal

Bittern, PrioryCP. 16th Feb 2013

American Bittern eating a crayfish

South Padre Island, TX

Blashford Lake Wildlife Reserve HWT Hampshire

I know I left my bottle of Adnams around here somewhere?

Circle B Bar

Record photo of American Bittern at Millbrook Marsh, Centre County, PA -- 9/25/2012

North Marsh, Tophill Low N R,

East Yorkshire

Family: Ardeidae.

Species: Botaurus stellaris.

Vernacular: Eurasian Bittern, Great Bittern.

Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.

21 April 2013.

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Bittern at Forest Farm March 2012

American bittern with a crawfish (?), Lake Woodruff NWR, De Leon Springs, FL

La Chua Trail, Paynes Prairie State Park, Alachua Co., FL

Riverlands Migratory Bird Sancturay 9/3/12

american bittern, tuttle marsh nwa, iosco county, mi, 5-14-12

American Bittern photographed at Circle B Bar Reserve

Bittern in the reeds, poor lighting

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Bittern (Botaurus stellaris). Woodwalton Fen NNR, Ramsey Heights, Cambridgeshire. April 14, 2024.

5/28/12 at B.K. Leach CA in Missouri

Los Haitises National Park

Nisqually Wildlife Refuge

This American Bittern was the star of this morning's group walk, and it was completely off my radar as a bird to look for. Chloe DaMommio spotted it first and we all got great looks at it. The bird ate 6-8 crawfish as we watched.

This is the only shot I got of the bittern with a crawfish in its mouth. I kept it despite not being very sharp.

DIGISCOPING_Sigma DP2 + Kowa Spotting scope TSN-884 + Kowa TE-10Z Eyepiece.

Least Bittern, photographed on 16 May 2014 at Wakodahatchee Wetlands.