Vermont's Institute of Natural Science recently returned a bird that was hit by a vehicle back to the wild.

An American bittern has been released back into the wild after recovering from injuries at the Vermont Institute of Natural ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conservationists are celebrating a record year for bitterns after a monitoring project revealed numbers had increased by a fifth since last year. Bitterns were declared extinct in the UK in the late ...

One of the UK's rarest birds, the bittern, is making a new comeback from extinction, after its best year on record led to the numbers of breeding males topping 100 for the first time. Here is a ...

It had vanished from the UK by the 1870s, but the secretive bird with the foghorn voice had a record-breaking year in 2021, says the RSPB Name: Bitterns. AKA: Botaurus stellaris. Age: First described ...

As Kathy was photographing wading birds at Brazos Bend State Park recently, she snapped a picture of what she thought was a green heron. But she wondered if it was a least bittern. A few minutes later ...

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 ...

The bittern's dependence on reed beds and its very small population have raised concerns One of the UK's most threatened birds - the bittern - is returning to England and Wales, according to ...