Has anyone else heard any booming sounds coming from their local marsh? Our bird project learder Doug Morin tells us more: "This is a male American Bittern, performing it’s vocalization – sometimes called “booming.” Bitterns are a highly camouflaged and secretive species that inhabit dense shallow marshes. The strong, low-pitched “booming” call is important because it carries a long distance, allowing competing males and interested females to know where the displaying bird is, despite their habi
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Have you heard Britain’s loudest bird? Bitterns are beginning to boom at many of our nature reserves. 😃 At Lancashire’s RSPB Leighton Moss, which boasts the largest reedbed in North West England, these elusive heron-like birds can be already be heard booming across the reserve and Morecambe Bay. Did you know the female Bittern can hear the male’s mating call from up to 3 km away? Let us know if you’ve heard any booming Bitterns at RSPB Leighton Moss or your local reserve! Visit https://bit.ly/L
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Britain’s loudest bird is booming – quite literally. The population of #bittern is at a record high of at least 164 booming males. Tom Clare of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust tells us about their distinctive call. 🐦 🐦 🐦 | BBC Breakfast
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Māwhero, Greymouth, Grey District ! This shout out is for you! Can you help us listen at Cobden Aromahana Lagoon to listen for the haunting boom of the male bittern over the next week? The Kowhai track is another wetland worth listening in for Bittern. Your records are helping towards a citizen science project - The Great Matuku-hūrepo Muster, annual nationwide synchronised counts of male bittern booming. These records help to inform our Regional and National population estimates. WHY Bittern ar
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Here a female bittern makes a loud rattling call that attracts a male bird and this is one of the recordings I am aware of showing bittern courtship behaviour. Using this vocalisation to locate breeding females using Automatic Acoustic Devices and visual spectrogram analysis is a useful research tool c. Peter Langlands Canterbury Bittern Research Project 2025 | Peter Langlands
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