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Bitterns
Little Bittern (Botaurus minutus)
Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
Great or Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris) adult bird head portrait
Bittern
BITTERN - IN REEDS
LITTLE BITTERN - on thorny bush
LITTLE BITTERN - preening
LITTLE BITTERN - wading in reeds
LITTLE BITTERN - in meadow
BITTERN - at waters edge
AUSTRALASIAN BITTERN
Great Bittern adult with fish prey
Little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) in flight over
Great Bittern adult with fish prey
Great Bittern adult standing on ice
Great Bittern adult standing on ice
Great Bittern adult with fish prey
Great Bittern adult standing on ice
Great Bittern adult standing on ice
Great Bittern adult standing on ice
Great Bittern adult standing on ice
Black-backed Least / Australian Little Bittern
Black-backed Least / Australian Little Bittern
Yellow Bittern
Yellow / Chinese Bittern - in nest - distant view
Little Bittern - male standing on road - necked stretched up
Little Bittern - male standing on road - necked stretched up
Little Bittern - female on reeds
Little Bittern - male perched in bush
Yellow / Chinese Bittern - eggs in nest
Pinnated Bittern - in dense vegetation
Bittern - In reedbed neck raised
Bittern - In reedbed neck raised
Bittern - In reedbed neck raised
Bittern - Flying off from reed edge
Bittern - Standing with neck up on reed edge
Bittern - Walking in water with prey - Water Shrew
Bittern - Standing in reedmace and sedge with frog
Bittern - Close up head
Bittern - Walking along water edge with reeds and
Bittern -Stalking along water edge in reeds
Bittern - Landing in reed bed - showing large feet
Bittern - Stalking in reeds
Bittern - Stalking along water edge showing large feet
Bittern - Camouflaged behind reeds
American Bittern
Little Bittern - nest with eggs
BITTERN - at nest, sky pointing
BITTERN - close-up, "Sky pointingI in reeds
BITTERN - at nest, in reeds
BITTERN - sky pointing
BITTERN - close-up of head
BITTERN - within long grass
Bittern - in reeds at nest with chicks
Least BITTERN - in water
BITTERN - in reeds, in the water, calling
BITTERN - in reeds, in the water
Sun Bittern - Nest defence display
Sunbittern
Little Bittern - female in reed nestSS
Yellow / Chinese Bittern - in nest
LITTLE BITTERN
Yellow / Chinese Bittern - Seychelles
LITTLE BITTERN - ON TWIGS
Sun Bittern - perched on branch
BITTERN - outside reed beds, searching for prey
BITTERN - outside reed beds, searching for prey
Bittern - in flight
Bittern - flying over breeding territory
Brown Bittern
Little Bittern - fishing for tadpoles
Little Bittern - Fishing for Tadpoles
Bittern
Bittern
Bittern - in flight over reed bed
Bittern
Bittern - in flight
Black Bittern
Little Bittern - Fishing for Tadpoles
Little Bittern - Fishing
EURASIAN BITTERN
Sun Bittern
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