FROM SANTEE LAKE.

A very cooperative American Bittern found along Black Point Wildlife Drive, MINWR.

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American Bittern

Great Meadows NWR - Concord Unit

Concord, Massachusetts

October 23, 2010

Sometimes you just get lucky....

And the bittern just gets closer and closer and closer....

An iconic bird of this flagship reserve!

Minsmere

Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge

Chambers County, Texas

Ranthambhor

Road to

Ramsar Preserve, Llobregat Delta, Barecelona, Catalonia, Spain, 6/27/15

April 17, 2016

McKinnon Road, Simcoe County, ON

St. Cloud Lake, Osceola Co., FL

RSPB Minsmere

Lake Apopka North Shore--Wildlife Drive--Lust Road, Orange County, Florida

Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge

Chambers County, Texas

I have never before seen a bittern climb to the top of a bush and skyline itself. Anhinga Trail, Florida Everglades

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RSPB Minsmere 10-06-14

Brazos Bend State Park, Texas

Taken at Minsmere.

John Heinz NWR, PA

Pacific Commons, Fremont, CA

John Heinz NWR at Tinicum, Phila., PA 04/30/2015

South Africa

September 2015

Morus capensis

Bittern catching dragonfly from the Bittern Hide, RSPB Minsmere this morning.

In the marsh, Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina, USA

k.. Last of the Bittern.... Please see Suffolk April 2014 album. www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157644325620984/

The Black Bittern ♀ (Ixobrychus Flavicollis) is a bittern of Old World origin, breeding in tropical Asia from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka east to China, Indonesia, and Australia. It is mainly resident, but some northern birds migrate short distances

Green Cay Wetlands

Botaurus lentiginosus

16 nov 13

Conestee, SC

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