One of the UK's rarest birds has bred on a nature reserve near Hull for the first time in its history. Yorkshire Wildlife ...

Record numbers of bittern booming calls have been heard in Yorkshire during the bird's breeding season, the RSPB has said. One of the rarest breeding birds in the UK, the bittern is also Britain's ...

American bitterns eat fish, insects, crayfish, crabs, frogs, snakes, and even small mammals such as meadow voles. Least bitterns eat the same kinds of foods and occasionally take eggs and chicks ...

Bitterns were driven to extinction in the UK by the 1870s due being hunted for food and the draining of their wetland habitats for agriculture. Conservation efforts have helped the population to ...

Though the voices of most herons and egrets are harsh grunts and croaks, bitterns make distinctive sounds. The American bittern is sometimes called a “thunder-pumper.” The sound is a gulping, guttural ...

There are now 228 male bitterns in the UK according to the RSPB, up from 11 in 1997. Experts say that recreating the bird's habitat has helped successfully encourage breeding.

Bitterns, a member of the heron family, are on the amber list of endangered species and one of the rarest breeding birds in the UK. They became extinct in the UK in the 1870s due to persecution ...

The RSPB's Otmoor Reserve in Beckley, near Oxford, is aiming to increase the number of bitterns and snipe that come to the wetland, after securing funding from Viridor Credits.

American bitterns eat fish, insects, crayfish, crabs, frogs, snakes and even small mammals such as meadow voles. Least bitterns eat the same kinds of foods and occasionally take eggs and chicks ...

You cannot transplant bitterns, you have to create the habitat and wait for them to move in. “That has happened at Lakenheath. Hopefully their range will now spread further.” ...