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  The Bitterns
Bitterns are less well known than Herons and Egrets because they are secretive birds living mainly in reed beds where they feed on eels, fish and insects.
The Eurasian Bittern is a partial migrant in Britain where it has suffered considerable decline in numbers in the last 200 years due to extensive habitat destruction.
The European Bittern builds its nest about water level on matted roots in reed beds, the nest is built, the eggs incubated and the young raised entirely by the female.
www.earthlife.net /birds/bitterns.html   (1257 words)

  
 Bittern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The wading bird s in this group which are named as bitterns tend to be the shorter necked, often more secretive members of this family.
Phoenicopteridae flamingo s Unlike the similar stork s, ibis es and spoonbill s, herons and bitterns fly with their necks retracted, not outstretched.
Matuku, The Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) Behavior, nesting, and diet of this native New Zealand bird.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Bittern.html   (299 words)

  
 Cinnamon Bittern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) is a small bittern.
They can be difficult to see, given their skulking lifestyle and reedbed habitat, but tend to emerge at dusk, when they can be seen creeping almost cat-like in search of frogs.
Cinnamon Bitterns feed on insects, fish and amphibians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cinnamon_Bittern   (166 words)

  
 Cinnamon Bittern -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) is a small (Relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes) bittern.
They can be difficult to see, given their skulking lifestyle and reedbed habitat, but tend to emerge at dusk, when they can be seen creeping almost cat-like in search of (Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species) frogs.
Cinnamon Bitterns feed on (Small air-breathing arthropod) insects, (Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills) fish and (Cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form) amphibians.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ci/cinnamon_bittern.htm   (279 words)

  
 cinnamon bittern (ixobrychus cinnamomeus): info fact sheet, photos
Cinnamon Bitterns hunt small fish, frogs and invertebrates but take larger prey than the Yellow Bitterns, with which they share their habitat.
Cinnamon Bitterns prefer freshwater wetlands where there is thick vegetation to hide in, e.g., marshes, ricefields, grasslands, reedbeds, ponds, reservoirs; up to 2,000m.
Cinnamon Bitterns nest on the ground in swampy places, or on a platform of bent-over stems and leaves about 50cm off the ground.
www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Ixobrychus_cinnamomeus.htm   (677 words)

  
 yellow bittern (ixobrychus sinensis): info fact sheet, photos
Yellow Bitterns are the smallest of the bitterns.
Hunting small fish, frogs and invertebrates, they take smaller prey than the Cinnamon Bitterns, with which they share their habitat.
Yellow Bitterns prefer freshwater wetlands with thick vegetation to hide and nest in: marshes, grasslands, reedbeds, ponds, reservoirs, including man-made canals, dredge-mine lagoons.
www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Ixobrychus_sinensis.htm   (681 words)

  
 ARDEIDAE FACTS AND INFORMATION
The Ardeidae family of birds is the heron, egret and bittern family of wading birds.
Within the family, all members of the genera, ''Botaurus'' and ''Ixobrychus'' are classed as bitterns, not herons.
In February 2005 the Canadian scientist Dr_Louis_Lefebvre announced a method of measuring avian IQ in terms of their innovation in feeding habits.
www.palfacts.com /Ardeidae   (255 words)

  
 Bittern Birds India, Ixobrychus minutus,Indian Bittern, Indian bird Species, birding India, Bird Watching Tour India, ...
India, the land of mega diversity with its immense variety of flora and fauna, is the ideal place for the wildlife enthusiasts.
Upperparts chestnut cinnamon; chin and throat whitish with a dark median stripe down foreneck.
Nest – a pad of reed flags on reeds or shrubbery near a pond.
www.indianwildlife.org /indian-birds/BITTERN-BIRDS.html   (669 words)

  
 Original Artwork: Vadim Gorbatov: Cinnamon Bittern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Cinnamon Bittern is a master of disguise.
Like others of its family, the Cinnamon Bittern is a small bird and can eat only the smallest of prey.
This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Maldives $5 Cinnamon Bittern stamp issued September 10, 1990.
www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5TCMH8.HTM   (370 words)

  
 Submission No:332   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The specimen is currently held by Environment Australia on Christmas Island, but is likely to be transported to the Western Australian Museum at a later date.
Measurements, photographs and a full description of the bird have been provided to the committee describing a small bittern similar in shape to a Little Bittern I. minutus.
The upperparts from the nape to the tip of the tail, including all wing coverts and flight feathers were bright rufous (cinnamon) and on each shouldere was a large tuft of prominent fl feathers, narrowly fringed yellow.
users.bigpond.net.au /palliser/barc/sub332.html   (397 words)

  
 Glossary of Medieval Cooking Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Blanche pouder; Blank powder; Blawnche pouder - a mixture of powdered cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg, with variations.
Botores - bittern, a marsh-fowl related to the heron.
Bytour - bittern, a marsh-fowl related to the heron.
www.godecookery.com /glossary/glossb.htm   (260 words)

  
 Hong Kong Bird Watching Society
Most important are the records of Red Data species Styans of bittern have been recorded on the marsh and in the woods Black Baza and Hair-crested Drongo breed, as does Blue Whistling Thrush.
Most ardeids in Hong Kong utilise areas of wetland agriculture to some extent, but it is particularly important for the breeding populations of Cattle Egrets, perhaps especially where Water Buffalo are present, and migrant populations of the Cinnamon Bittern and the globally threatened Schrenck's Bittern.
The Cinnamon Bittern formerly bred in Hong Kong, being a summer visitor to rice paddies in the Deep Bay area, but now appears to be solely a passage migrant; though it still breeds in rice paddies in Guangdong.
www.hkbws.org.hk /conser4e.html   (3890 words)

  
 About Bali & Indonesia Travel | Bali Bird - Baliforyou.com
Andhere, according to the season, is the haunt of Watercock and Cinnamon Bittern, of Ruddy breasted Crake and flocks of stately snowy white Plumed and Little Egrets.
Consorting with the latter and usually distinguishable by the buffy-rufous patches of their nuptial plumage, are the Cattle Egrets; while scattered about in frozen attitudes, some Javan Pond Herons stare warily at passers-by, the breeding birds richly adorned in buff and cinnamon and fl, which is curiously transformed to white when they erupt into flight.
Over flying the fields are Swift lets and Swallows, and tiny tumbling Fantail-Warblers, whilst swarms of marauding Munias wheel this way and that to escape the clappers, before descending in a mass to ravage another patch of unguarded grain.
www.baliforyou.com /bali/bali_guide/bird.htm   (809 words)

  
 Birds of Ambergris Caye-The Tiger Heron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Little Blue Herons are snow white for their first year of life and a mangrove cuckoo is pale brown when it is just a year old but rich yellow, cinnamon and has jet fl markings when it has its first mating desires.
I suspect this is a young bare-throated Tiger Heron, most likely a close cousin to the Bittern.
As I drifted closer in the boat, it got a little nervous and took a frozen posture of a Bittern camouflage by holding its neck up pretending to be a stump.
www.ambergriscaye.com /birds/tiger.html   (362 words)

  
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Eurasian bittern, Chinese little bittern, cinnamon bittern and fl bittern.
The fl bittern has a closer relationship to the cinnamon bittern and Chinese little bittern, these three species forming a monophyletic group.
This supports the placement of the fl bittern in the genus Ixobrychus [Acta Zoologica Sinica 49(2):205-210,2003].
www.actazool.org /paperdetail.asp?id=278&volume=49&number=2&bgpage=205&endpage=210&year=2003&month=4   (266 words)

  
 Oso Flaco Lake Natural Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
OSO FLACO LAKE NATURAL AREA is one of the best sites on the Trail for American Bittern.
In early 2003, a Least Bittern was seen for several weeks.
This is also one of the best spots in San Luis Obispo County for Cinnamon Teal, Blue-winged Teal, Canvasback, Gadwall, Least Tern and Marsh Wren.
www.ca-ccbt.info /SLOsites/01-OsoFlaco   (97 words)

  
 Birdwatching Trip Report from Singapore
Broad-billed sandpipers, Limicola falcinellus, which had been seen in the morning would have been a close second but they had left for mud-flats as the tide dropped before we got there.
A visit to a sewage settling pond (which by now will have been filled in by the development work going on) produced Cinnamon bittern and White-browed crake (found by Brian and giving stonking views).
Red collared doves were feeding with the local pigeons, watched by Scaly-breasted munias in nearby tall grass.
www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/singapore/singa1/singapore.htm   (770 words)

  
 Sandgrouse - Oman bird sightings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Two first records were a Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus ci momeus at Khor Rawri on 21 November (only the second Middle East record) and a Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti at Al Ansab on 14 November.
Khawr Rawri hosted 1-2 Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis, 1-2 Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta and a Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus on 3-8 November.
Another Yellow Bittern was at Khawr al Magshayl on 7 October.
www.osme.org /sand241/oman.html   (401 words)

  
 Bird watching tour - Taiwan - surfbirds.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Proceeding to the coast, we had a lunch at the appropriately-named Dong Shr ("It's Delicious") seafood restaurant, followed by birding at the Puzih River, where we found a Black-tailed Gull among the ducks and waders, Whiskered and White-winged Tern, and a Cinnamon Bittern.
There were many herons and egrets, a Yellow Bittern, many Common Moorhen, Black-winged Stilt, Pacific Golden Plover, Red-necked Stint, Little Ringed Plover, Snowy Plover and East Siberian Gull.
Cinnamon Bittern, Ixobrychus cinnamomeus - 1, Puzih River.
www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/taiwan-jm-0404.html   (4491 words)

  
 BirdForum - Family photo
However, I thought the novelty of snapping three unrelated birds in one shot was worth showing off.
I'll stick with Ruddy Crake and try Schrenk's Bittern and some sort of Bee-eater.
They are (even) more blurred than the bittern, but are still, I think, identifiable (but then I know what they are!).
www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=37314   (260 words)

  
 Bird watching trip report - Goa, India - surfbirds.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Beira Mar: Cinnamon Bittern (2), Baillon's Crake, Painted Snipe (7), Bluethroat (3).
Maem Lake: Cinnamon Bittern, Brown Fish Owl (2), Crested Tree-swift (4), Large Cuckoo-shrike, Golden-fronted Leafbird, Puff-throated Babbler (2), Tawny-bellied Babbler (5), Verditer Flycatcher, Booted Warbler, Malabar Whistling-thrush, Orange-headed Ground-thrush, Nilgiri Blackbird, White-cheeked Barbet (2), Loten's Sunbird, White-bellied Drongo (2).
Beira Mar: Cinnamon Bittern (2), Baillon's Crake, Pintail Snipe (5).
www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/goa-mp-0104.html   (2146 words)

  
 Oriental Stork
Taxonomic Order, Common Names List: Night-Heron Yellow Bittern Cinnamon Bittern Ibises and Spoonbills (Threskiornithidae) Black-faced Spoonbill Storks (Ciconiidae) Oriental Stork Ducks, Geese and...
: Botaurus poiciloptilus, Australasian Bittern Mycteria cinerea, Milky Stork Ciconia stormi, Storm's Stork Ciconia boyciana, Oriental Stork Leptoptilos javanicus...
Northern China 2002 Birdlist: Yellow Bittern, 3, 3, Ixobrychus sinensis.
www.specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/O/Oriental_Stork.shtml   (1656 words)

  
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The best find was a female/immature Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobryochus cinnamomeus) found low in a bush; I spooked it and it flew off but settled again in a low branch of an acacia about 50 yards out.
Whilst sheltering in the temple area, I found a Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) and a Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla) in an acacia overhanging the water, and going back along the Sapan Mari trail I refound the Cinammon Bittern.
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis Immature in acacia near temple, in same tree as Wryneck.
www.princeton.edu /~vivekt/trips/Bharatpur99.html   (1188 words)

  
 Lesser Adjutant
:...lakes there are Cormorants, Darter, Cinnamon Bittern, Black-crowned Night and Purple Herons, Asian Openbill, Woolly-necked and Lesser Adjutant Storks, Lesser...
Ltd : www.nepaltreksinfo.com:...regular): Little Cormorants, Darter, Cinnamon Bittern, Black-crowned Night and Purple Herons, Asian Open-bill, Wooly-necked and Lesser Adjutant Storks, Lesser...
A Bird's-eye View of Nepal (Part Two): A flight of twenty-seven Asian openbill storks rises up from a pond; a lesser adjutant stork (immense at five feet tall) wanders through the marsh, scavenging...
www.specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/L/Lesser_Adjutant.shtml   (1881 words)

  
 Birdwatching Trip Report from the Philippines
Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)-Seen a few times on the trip in marshy areas of PALAWAN near Last Frontier Lodge and MINDANAO.
Schrenck's Bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus)-Seen once in marshy area of PALAWAN near Last Frontier Lodge.
Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) -Seen once in marshy area of PALAWAN near Last Frontier Lodge.
www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/philippines/phil7/phil-list.htm   (3458 words)

  
 Japan Jan 2005 FONT Winter Birding Itinerary - Amami & Okinawa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Also this day, in addition to the woodpecker, in the forest we'll seek rare pigeons (2 species) and the dapper Ryukyu Robin.
In an area of wet farm fields, we'll look for for such niceties as Greater Painted-Snipe and Cinnamon Bittern (and whatever else we may find - we usually do find something good and unexpected).
Another early morning for the rail (if we missed it the previous day, or even if we saw it), and some final Okinawa birding, later in the morning, before heading to the airport for a late-afternoon flight north to
www.focusonnature.com /JA-2EuroGrp'05.htm   (558 words)

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