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.

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The numbers of one of Britain's rarest birds, the bittern, have increased in the East Anglian Fens, the RSPB has revealed. Newly created habitats are helping the bittern, known for its "booming" call, ...

Britain’s “loudest bird” is booming again after decades of population decline, conservationists have reported. A member of the heron family, the Eurasian bittern — Botaurus stellaris — is a reclusive, ...

A bittern recently photographed at Kaituna wetland. Photo / Mathew Herring Tanner’s Point residents may be hearing a new sound echoing across the peninsular - a deep, low-pitched ‘’boom’' at dawn or ...