Y Trallwng, Powys: Patience and quietude are your friends if you are to see – or hear –one of these rebounding reed-dwellers The hide at Llyn Coed y Dinas, close to the southern end of the Welshpool ...

Don Estep of LaPorte, Ind. photographed an American bittern back on May 3 in a marsh near New Buffalo. The American bittern ...

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 ...

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.

For the first time in more than 40 years, the distinctive booming call of the endangered Australasian bittern once again rings out across the waters of Tasmania’s Lagoon of Islands. The Australasian ...