An American bittern shows off its long wingspan in this photo by Buck Domitrovich.

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 ...

Buck Domitrovich took this photo of an American bittern, a rare and hard-to-spot bird found in wetlands. Domitrovich took this photo on Tuesday at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

Hundreds of bird watchers flocked to Britain after an American bittern was spotted for the first time in almost a decade. People came from across Europe to catch a glimpse of the bird, which is ...

The least bittern is scarcely larger than a robin. Even that scrawny great blue heron weighs over 40 times as much, and the heron nearest its size, the green heron, is still three times as heavy.

ARE you able to spot the bird hiding in the weeds? If you can find the winged creature in less than 15 seconds, you may have 20/20 vision. Birdwatcher Raylene Wall’s nature snap has become a … ...

Most bird watchers would agree that the American Bittern is not easy to spot. This wading bird inhabits reedy marshes and its warm brown body, dark strips, and long bill blend in very well. When ...

So discovered Mark Fraser over several years of trying to stalk and videotape the American bittern, an extremely secretive and elusive marsh bird in the heron family, for his Nature Walks With ...

Berkshire County: An American white pelican at Big Pond in Otis, two merlins in Dalton, a least bittern in the marsh off Town Beach Road in Richmond, and single hooded warblers at the Hopkins ...

A young South American bittern fell exhausted in the rear yard of 411 West Thirty-third Street yesterday. August and Willie Schramm, two boys who live at that number, caught the bird.

ARE you able to spot the bird hiding in the weeds? If you can find the winged creature in less than 15 seconds, you may have 20/20 vision.