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American bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
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Length: 23 inches Wingspan: 45 inches
Medium-sized wading bird
Dark brown upperparts
Underparts streaked brown and white
Black malar streak
Yellow bill with dark culmen ...
American Bittern
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American Bittern
Botaurus lentiginosus
The American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) breeds across the northern United States and much of Canada; it winters across a good portion of the SE United States, Texas, Mexico, and along the Pacific Coast.
American Bittern: Breeds from southeastern Alaska, Manitoba, and Newfoundland south to California, New Mexico, Arkansas, and the Carolinas.
American Bittern Behaviour
No observations regarding American Bittern behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about American Bitterns ...
American Bitterns are sometimes polygynous, with one male mating with several females. While the nesting habits of the species are not well known, it seems that the female does most of the nest-building, incubation, and chick rearing.
Diet The American Bittern eats small fish, eels, small snakes, salamanders, insects, frogs, crayfish, and small mammals. It stands still in the water and waits for its prey. When it spots something, it quickly goes after it and catches it in its bill.
American Bittern
(Botaurus lentiginosus)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
This species is State Endangered. It is in danger of extinction as a breeding species in the state of Illinois.
American Bittern
Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett)
Status Uncommon in summer, very rare in winter. Breeds. Regular in freshwater or brackish marshes from time of spring arrival, generally in April (average 17 April, earliest 29 March).
American Bittern
This report is one in a series of literature syntheses on North American grassland birds.
AMERICAN BITTERN.
[American Bittern.]
ARDEA LENTIGINOSA, Swains.
[Botaurus lentiginosus.] ...
The American Bittern feeds mostly on frogs, snakes, small fish and creyfish in the marshes. It will occasionally visit open fields to dine on grashoppers and mice.
Notes ...
American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosa.
Great Bittern or European Bittern, Botaurus stellaris
South American Bittern, Botaurus pinnatus
Australasian Bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus
Botaurus hibbardi (fossil) ...
American Bittern (Botaurus lentignosus)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) ...
American Bittern
One of the highlights of our recent Holiday Bird Count (I'm starting a politically correct trend here) was the sighting of not one but two American Bitterns (Botaurus lentiginosus) at Muddy Hollow Pond near Limantour Beach.
American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus. Uncommon in winter, spring, and fall in Gulf Coast region. Rare inland in fall, winter, and spring. Found in marshes and along shrubby swamp borders. MODERATE CONSERVATION CONCERN.
American Bittern
Winter Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Red-winged Blackbird
Winter Sighting Information: abundant
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
- American Bittern (Botanus lentiginosus)
- Common Terns (Sterna hirundo)
- Common Loon (Gavia immer) ...
of mice do take voles; examples include gulls (Larus spp.), northern shrike (Larius borealis), black-billed magpie (Pica pica), common raven (Corvus corvax), American crow (C. brachyrhynchos), great blue heron (Ardea herodias), and American bittern ...
The American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus), often called "stake driver" because of a territorial male's booming call in the spring, is widely distributed in E North America. It is mostly nocturnal and feeds on frogs, fish, and insects.
Bitterns are thickset herons with bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars, similar in appearance to the to the American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosa.
Pinnated Bittern (Botaurus pinnatus)
(aka South American Bittern)
Brazil ...
There is documentation of dumping on at least 9 other duck species, and even nests of the American Bittern and Northern Harrier. Many parasitically laid eggs fail to hatch because the host female often deserts the nest and then renests elsewhere.
The American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) is somewhat smaller than the European species, and is found throughout the central and southern portions of North America. It also occurs in Britain as an occasional straggler.
 See also: Bittern, Heron, Blue heron, Least Bittern, Swallow
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