The Eurasian bittern, a secretive British wetland bird, announces its presence with a distinctive low-frequency 'boom' during ...

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, ...

On day in early-mid November, I was splashing and splodging around in one of the campground lakes, noting signs of beaver activity. As I emerged from this little exploration and came up onto the road, ...

The "once heard, never forgotten" call of a rare bird has been heard at a nature reserve - just 15 minutes from Essex - for the very first time. RSPB Rainham Marshes, located beside the Thames, ...

The male bittern's booming mating call is evidence of the species' recovery in the UK Record numbers of bittern booming calls have been heard in Yorkshire during the bird's breeding season, the RSPB ...

The song of the male bittern – the king of the reedbed – sounds like a foghorn.

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Davidson Township, Sullivan County – as the American bittern manuervered through the tall grass toward the open water of Splash Dam Pond, it didn’t look like a dangerous bird. The bittern, which is on ...

The mountains, lakes, deep woods and rugged coastlines of Maine's Acadia National Park are home to more than 300 species of birds. Volunteers are now making recordings to document the avian soundscape ...