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 ...

A near-extinct breed of bird has been heard making a mating call following a nationwide conservation effort. A "booming" mating call from a male Bittern was heard at Amwell Nature Reserve, in Great ...

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 ...

Saltholme has been a winter home to up to three bitterns 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 ...