One of the UK's rarest birds, the bittern, is making a new comeback from extinction, after its best year on record led to the numbers of breeding males topping 100 for the first time. Here is a ...

For those with patience, who are happy to spend long hours around freshwater wetland habitats, a reward in the form of a+ ...

The Somerset Wildlife Trust is asking people to listen to hear the boom of a bittern as it tries to track them for a study. The distinctive boom of the male can be heard up to two miles (3.2km) away.

Britain's loudest bird, the bittern, is enjoying its best year since records began, thanks partly to a new penchant for nesting in disused and working quarries. The bittern – a relative of the grey ...

Least bittern, Ixobrychus exilis (synonyms, Ardetta exilis and Botaurus exilis, also Ardetta neoxena, Ixobrychus exilis neoxenus, Ixobrychus neoxenus; protonym, Ardea exilis), Gmelin, JF, 1789, also ...