The endangered Australasian bittern likes to keep a low profile, and if it feels threatened it's known to stand still, extend its wings and pretend to be a reed. It has the nickname 'bunyip bird' ...
“I was going out to Interlaken to put a recorder out because, in previous years, they had been heard out there,” he said. “The site I wanted to get to, I couldn’t, for various reasons. I was driving ...
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 ...
Experts celebrate discovery of secretive and endangered Australasian bittern in recently restored wetlands The “bunyip bird” – named after a mythological river-lurking, human-eating monster – is as ...