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 ...

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 ...

A bittern recently photographed at Kaituna wetland. Photo / Mathew Herring Tanner’s Point residents may be hearing a new sound echoing across the peninsular - a deep, low-pitched ‘’boom’' at dawn or ...

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 ...