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 ...

A near-extinct breed of bird has been heard making a mating call following a nationwide conservation effort. A "booming" mating call from a male Bittern was heard at Amwell Nature Reserve, in Great ...

Staff at a wildlife reserve on Stockton have been celebrating hearing the mating sounds of the loudest bird in Britain for the first time. The distinctive "booming" call of the male bittern was last ...

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 ...

Bob Green can name just about every bird at South Australia's Bool Lagoon, but his eyes light up when he hears the Australasian bittern's booming call. "It's a great thing, a special thing to hear," ...

“Song of the Yellow Bittern” is a young poet’s play, full of fine talk and song and flashing images but short on substance. Irish playwright Vincent Woods, who also wrote “At the Black Pig’s Dyke,” is ...