Dan Tallman’s Chook Weblog: American Bittern


All iciness an American Sour frolicked alongside a small, grassy creek on the Billy Frank Jr Nationwide Natural world Safe haven. Regardless of a large number of eBird stories, we simplest discovered the hen two times, maximum just lately on 24 February 2022. Along with being cryptically coloured, bitterns frequently freeze when approached. We stood on a marsh fail to remember. Two birders exclaimed, “There’s a bittern!” Erika and I ran over and there in undeniable sight, lightly strolled a bittern.

At one level the bittern stopped, and leaned over to see at one thing within the water. The hen, alternatively, made no strike. Bitterns patiently look ahead to passing prey. The birds most commonly hunt at daybreak or nightfall. Virtually the rest will do—bugs, amphibians, crayfish, small fish or small mammals (Lowther et al. 2020). 

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