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Bitterns are birds belonging to the subfamily Botaurinae of the heron family Ardeidae. Bitterns tend to be shorter-necked and more secretive than other

refer to: Bittern, Victoria, a town in Australia Bittern railway station, on the Stony Point line Bittern Lake, a village in Alberta, Canada Bittern Line a

Bittern (pl. bitterns), or nigari, is the salt solution formed when halite (table salt) precipitates from seawater or brines. Bitterns contain magnesium

south Wales. These were the first bitterns to breed in the county in some 250 years. In the 21st century, bitterns are regular winter visitors to the

or bitterns rather than herons. Members of the genus Botaurus are referred to as bitterns, and, together with the zigzag heron, or zigzag bittern, in

The American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) is a species of wading bird in the heron family. It has a Nearctic distribution, breeding in Canada and the

New Zealand Our Changing World programme "Booming Bitterns", 3 February 2016 Australasian bitterns discussed on Radio NZ Critter of the Week, 4 Dec 2015

blue-green eggs. Yellow bitterns feed on a variety of insects, fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and molluscs. The yellow bittern is protected under the Migratory

Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with herons, cranes, egrets and bitterns in the genus Ardea and coined the binomial name Ardea cinnamomea. Gmelin

government area. Bittern recorded a population of 4,276 at the 2021 census. Bittern is part of an urban enclave on Western Port comprising Bittern, Hastings