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	American Bittern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a large, chunky, brown bird, very similar to the Eurasian Great Bittern, Botaurus stellaris.
		Like other members of the heron family, the American Bittern feeds in marshes and shallow ponds, dining on amphibians, fish, insects and reptiles.
		This bittern winters in the southern United States and Central America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Bittern (259 words)

	Great Bittern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae.
		It is a large, chunky, brown bird, very similar to the American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosa.
		This bittern is usually well-hidden in Phragmites reedbeds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Bittern (203 words)

	* Bittern - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bittern's feathers are much fancied by trout fishermen as they apparently look a lot like whitebait when trailed in the water.
		The Bittern makes its home in extensive grassy meadows with plenty of water, but in the season of migration may be found and heard "booming" in smaller and more accessible swampy places...
		Least Bitterns are easier to "flush" from cover than the larger which tend to freeze and become part of the background when approached...
	en.mimi.hu /bird/bittern.html (552 words)

	Bittern, Birds, Bittern, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Date : 10/18/2005 Time : 10:15:28 PM The bittern is any of 12 species of wading birds closely related to the herons but generally with shorter legs, necks, and bills.
		The American bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus, when approached, may stand upright with its bill pointed to the sky, using its coloration for concealment.
		It is about 75 cm (30 in) long, the size varying somewhat but averaging a little smaller than the similarly marked great bittern, B. stellaris, of the Old World.
	www.4to40.com /4to40.com_non_ssl/earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=7 (179 words)

	Gaviiforms to Anseriforms
		Here are some examples of the Least Bittern's call, which is often heard but not seen.
		A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), one of my favorite birds, complains that I've gotten too close to his perch in a Hackberry tree at the edge of Peck's Lake.
		Great Egrets (Ardea alba) seldom make any sound at all, but I caught this one yelling at a pair of White-tailed Kites that were hassling him for sitting too near their nesting site in the Elkhorn Slough wildlife area.
	www.naturesongs.com /gavianse.html (1232 words)

	Ornithologischer Anzeiger Band 40, Heft 1
		Bittern: Migratory bird and guest almost annually for 150 years, as breeding bird (since 1850) with 1-3 pairs at 4 sites over periods of changing length.
		Little Bittern: The occurrence of breeding birds and migratory birds are subject to great fluctuation as in the 19th century: in the nineteen-fifties and nineteen-sixties there was a dense population with a daily maximum of 20 birds, however, 1977 to 1996 there were in 6 years only 0-1 findings.
		Great White Egret: In the 20th century from 1959 to 1993 occurrence of almost always single birds in 15 years only, mostly staying a single day.
	www.og-bayern.de /deutsch/pubs/orn_anz/anz_bd40h1_abs.htm (674 words)

	Trip report, Minsmere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Great Crested Grebe — A pair were on Island Mere with one close bird providing good views while another sat on its nest on the far edge of the reeds.
		Great Bittern — Exceptional and long flight views were had of this difficult skulking species as a bird flew from the north reedbed southwards.
		Great Spotted Woodpecker — After two flight views from the car park, we were treated to exceptional views of a pair which fed around the Canopy Hide.
	www.birdinglondon.co.uk /trip_lists/Minsmere_230502.html (1958 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)

	Great Bittern - Cyberbirding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Great Bittern at Ortuvann in Bergen, Hordaland county on the 15th.
		When relocated at this new spot today, it stayed exposed long enough for the local twitchers to tick it off.
		Despite of six birds recorded in Norway this winter, it is a great rarity with only 65 records until 2001.
	cyberbirding.uib.no /photo/b_stellaris_01.php (74 words)

	Bittern (Great Bittern) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This big striped brown heron is famous for its booming call — which enables research scientists to distinguish males as individuals from recordings.
		Nesting in Ireland and Scotland had ceased by 1840 and at the turn of the century the Bittern was lost as a breeding bird in England.
		After a few years they returned and more than 80 booming males were logged annually in the mid-1950s.
	www.birdcare.com /bin/showsonb?bittern (179 words)

	Sightings 2003 Vogelplas Starrevaart en Vlietland
		Great Bittern 2, Common Teal 190, Northern Pintail 12, Northern Shoveler 190, Goosander 1 female, Northern Chiffchaff 2, Bearded Reedling heard near hide.
		December 4 - Great Bittern 2, Common Teal 175, Tufted Duck 385, Common Buzzard 1 caught northern lapwing, Pied Avocet 1, Dunlin 12, Common Kingfisher 1.
		December 1 - Great Bittern 2, Bewick's Swan 22 adult 3 juvenile, Peregrine Falcon 1 adult.
	www.xs4all.nl /~sjaak/vwgvl/en/sightings/2003.html (5762 words)

	The Great Bittern Bonanza
		A short drive along the marshland tracks one February morning produced close-up views of at least 15 different Great Bitterns in what was a very small proportion of the entire marshland area.
		The birds were often seen well out in the open, stalking along the reedbed fringes and skating on the ice!
		surprised even the reserve wardens, who had estimated the total number of Bitterns in the Delta to be only in single figures.
	home.btconnect.com /bt-uk-connect-012/Bitterns.html (90 words)

	Volume 8, Plate 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The heron has great powers of wing, flying sometimes very high, and to a great distance; his neck doubled, his head drawn in, and his long legs stretched out in a right line behind him, appearing like a tail, and probably serving the same rudder-like office.
		When he leaves the sea coast, and traces on wing the courses of the creeks or rivers upwards, he is said to prognosticate rain; when downwards, dry weather.
		In our vast fens, meadows, and sea-marshes, this stately bird roams at pleasure, feasting on the never-failing magazines of frogs, fish, seeds and insects with which they abound, and of which he probably considers himself the sole lord and proprietor.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~PUBLIC/wilson/65.html (218 words)

	A Guide to the Best Flamingo, Heron, Bittern and Stork Sites
		The bittern is totally dependent on wetland habitats; usually inhabits marshes with open water in the center, gradual slopes, a band of emergent vegetation around the periphery, and idle grassland in the adjacent uplands.
		At this website there are great pictures of flamingos in their daily routines.
		Herons and Bitterns - This site lists the different types of herons and bitterns living in Cedar Creek, a large ecological research site in central Minnesota.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/liststorksake.html (1220 words)

	recent trip reports? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We saw all sorts of birds but the highlight for me was a great look at a fly-by Great Bittern, Little Terns and a Short-eared Owl.
		From the dike great view on the marshes with Spoonbill, Great White egret (2) and Flamingo (3).
		On the embankment of an empty harbour a group of well over a hundred Twite's (Frater) is feeding on seeds between the stones; they let us approach them at a distance of a few meters so we can really see their very fine yellow and pink colours.
	www.globalxs.nl /home/m/markui/triprep.htm (3461 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock HE-HY
		Her presence is felt immediately on the first track, the wild "Bittern Storm Over Ulm", which is supposed to be based on the Yardbirds' "Got To Hurry." Of note, Frith's great 12-minute "Ruins" and the jazzy "Half asleep/Half awake," composed by bassist/singer John Greaves.
		I was fortunate enough to catch the Spacefolk at NEARFest 2004 where they played a spectacular set of music with a great psychedelic light show (a projected video) in which the hexagonal motif of their Symbiosis album cover (and lots of marijuana leaves) figured prominently.
		Hugh Hopper is one of the greatest musicians of the Canterbury scene, Hopper is a great composer/improvisator and bass player who influenced generations of bassists.
	www.gepr.net /he.html (15660 words)

	Checklist of the birds of eastern Congo
		DWARF BITTERN Ixobrychus sturmii - Uncommon resident in all of eastern Congo, probably absent from the central rainforest.
		GREAT EGRET Ardea alba melanorhynchos - Fairly common in all of the eastern Congo, but no breeding records in the east.
		GREAT BLUE TURACO Corythaeola cristata - Common, Lake Tanganyika to Kisangani and the Sudan border.
	www.tommy777.addr.com /Eastcongo-list.htm (9338 words)

	Bittern - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Bittern - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Home > Birds > A to Z of UK Birds > B > Bittern
		Bittern wading in reedbed - Andy Hay (rspb-images.com, Ref: 2002_3074_009)
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/b/bittern/index.asp (221 words)

	Summer 1998 Central Mass Bird Sightings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A GREAT EGRET was found at 12:30 pm, but it stayed only about 10 minutes.
		In the evening there were 3 GREAT EGRETS at the Smith Street Marsh, along with 1 GREEN HERON, 1 SORA, and a singing NORHTERN WATERTHRUSH.
		This morning at the Gardner end of High Ridge WMA off Smith street between 5:30 and 6:30 AM there were 1 American Bittern (Calling continuously), 1 Hooded Merganser Female exiting a nest box, 3 Wood Duck (1 Female with young), 1 Willow and 2 Alder Flycatchers (both could be heard from same spot).
	users.wpi.edu /~rsquimby/birds/summ98.html (548 words)

	Bitterns, Herons, Ibis and Storks
		A The 1972 Great Blue Heron Migration in Minnesota
		A The 1973 Great Blue Heron Migration in Minnesota
		A The Aggressive Responses of a Nesting Osprey in a Great Blue Heron Colony
	biosci.cbs.umn.edu /~mou/loon/03bitterns-Ibis.html (1170 words)

	data by taxonomic order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Numerous additional great blues were seen in same vicinity.
		We also saw about 500 Great Egrets at Bald Knob NWR on this same day.
		Part of a colony that includes cattle egret, snowy egret, great egret.
	www.arbirds.org /data/taxab-tv.htm (1564 words)

	The Oklahoma Birding List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The specimen is mounted with the natural flora of its habitat and retains its original base and hand blown globe.
		His topic will be The Great Plains Trail of Oklahoma, about the formation of this road-based wildlife viewing trail located in western Oklahoma.
		It was very nice the wether was great and the wind didn't start kicking up until I left.
	birdingonthe.net /mailinglists/OKLA.html (8678 words)

	GENUKI: Devon - Genealogy
		Their catalogues are now largely online, as part of A2A (the Access to Archives network), whose search page allows one to choose to focus a search on the holdings of a particular record office.
		The great majority of extant Devon parish registers are now in the custody of the Devon Record Office - for details see Parish Registers in the Devon Record Office.
		In addition, the great majority of extant Nonconformist registers have had their entries extracted into the IGI, which is now available online as part of the LDS Family Search web site.
	genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk /DEV/index.html (10998 words)

	BirdForum - The Little Egret in England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I do believe that a formative stage in the creation of the RSPB was a desire of some ladies to protest against the use of egret plumes in the hat industry, but I also believe these were not obtained within the UK itself, but as your researcher said, by Victorian hunters plundering the continent.
		Primarily, the concern was over great crested grebes that had become virtually extinct in the UK.
		The little egret was the primary target but doubtlessly, great white egrets, cattle egrets and possibly, grey herons were targeted too.
	www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=25367 (966 words)

	Stover Country Park, Nr Newton Abbott, Devon - BirdDiary.co.uk
		Joined a group of 5 or so other birders almost immediately who were standing looking at the reeds on the far side of the lake.
		Stood with them for a while observing a very secretive (as usual!) Bittern, occasionally craning it's neck into view...
		In the wooded area on the far side of the lake (behind where the Bittern was lurking) we had long views of a flock of around 30 Redpoll, intermingled with the odd Siskin, all swinging from the tops of the newly budding trees feeding and gradually moving across the area.
	www.birddiary.co.uk /diaryentry.asp?did=59 (230 words)

	Nebraska RBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		50 GREAT EGRETS were seen at the Alma boat dock.
		In Phelps County on the 29th at Funk Lagoon, 3 GREAT EGRETS, 17
		In Iowa, south of Bartlett, 57 GREAT EGRETS, 31 CATTLE EGRETS and 3
	rip.physics.unk.edu /NOU/2001RBAs/20010731.html (221 words)

	Great Bittern - Botaurus stellaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Click here to go to the forums home page and find out more.
		Can be seen throughout the year but more widespread in Western Europe during Winter (very localised).
		Great Bittern (Eurasian Bittern) Botaurus stellaris RANGE Eurasia and Africa.
	www.birdforum.net /bird_view.php?bid=3461 (404 words)

	Birding in London - Bird news October 2003
		Amwell GP - Bittern and Jack Snipe (5) Beddington SF - Pintail, Jack Snipe, Water Pipit (2) and Bearded Tit Cheshunt GP - Bittern
		Amwell GP - Bittern, Spotted Redshank, Jack Snipe (4) and Cetti's Warbler Beddington SF - Pintail and Firecrest Brent Res - Jack Snipe Hornchurch CP - Cetti's Warbler and Firecrest
		Great Warley - Firecrest (5) Northfleet - Leach's Petrel (2) and Brent Goose (6)
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /calidris/birdnewsOctober03.htm (782 words)

	Bird Checklists of the United States
		Great Smoky Mountains National Park 107 Park Headquarters Road Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738 Telephone: 423/436-1200
		F.J. Birds of the Great Smoky Mountains, a checklist for the birds of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
		Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association in cooperation with Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/chekbird/r4/smokymt.htm (763 words)

	Birds of India - CICONIIFORMES - Accipiters - Aquilas - Falcons - Herons - Ardeidae - Birders - Birding in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris - widespread winter visitor
		Great Egret Casmerodius albus - Widespread resident & sparse winter visitor
		Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo - widespread winter visitor and resident
	www.birding.in /orders/ciconiiformes.htm (984 words)

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