American Bittern Identification - All About Birds
网页American Bitterns are mostly warm brown, buff, and white. They are strongly streaked, especially on the neck, and they can be very hard to see against marsh vegetation. In flight the dark outer wings contrast sharply with the brown of the rest of the bird. © Lelah Cafuoco / Macaulay Library.
American Bittern | Audubon Field Guide
网页Mostly fish and other aquatic life. Eats fish (including catfish, eels, killifish, perch), frogs, tadpoles, aquatic insects, crayfish, crabs, salamanders, garter snakes. Has been seen catching flying dragonflies. In drier habitats may eat rodents, especially voles.
American Bittern - American Bird Conservancy
网页A shy wetland denizen, the chunky, mid-sized American Bittern is more often heard than seen. If spotted and approached, this marsh bird prefers to freeze in place, not fly away as a Green Heron or Great Egret might. Its brown-striped and buff-flecked plumage provides effective camouflage amidst the reeds and tall grasses where it hides; to add ...
American Bittern Taking Off And In Flight – Feathered …
网页2019年5月3日 · The American Bittern is solitary and cryptically colored. Throw in its secretive nature and inaccessible habitats and you have a species that I rarely see so getting photos of one taking off and in flight made my day yesterday.
American Bittern | Missouri Department of Conservation
网页In flight, an American bittern can be told best by the contrasting chocolate brown primaries (primary flight feathers on the outer part of the wings) and lighter brown inner halves of the wings. The distinctive pumping or gulping, rhythmic song of the males sounds something like the voice of a traditional Yoruba “talking” drum of West ...
American Bittern: Master of Camouflage - Living on Earth
网页2018年4月27日 · An American Bittern in flight. (Photo: Gregg Thompson) In marshes across North America, if you look carefully and listen for a loud gulping sound on spring mornings you might spot an American Bittern. In this week’s BirdNote®, Mary McCann describes its striped plumage and how its behavior helps it blend with the cattails.
American bittern - Wikipedia
网页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 northern and central parts of the United States, and wintering in the U.S. Gulf Coast states, all of Florida into the Everglades, the Caribbean islands and parts of Central America.
American Bittern - eBird
网页Note striped neck, plain unspotted wings, and even more secretive behavior of bittern. Most active around dawn and dusk, when it might be seen flying low over extensive marshes. Listen for its incredible vocalization in the spring and summer: a resonant, booming noise produced by air sacs on the neck, “oonk-GA-loonk.”.
American Bittern - ID, Facts, Diet, Habit & More | Birdzilla
网页2023年2月22日 · American Bitterns are mostly white, buff, and warm brown. They have bold streaks on their necks and can be very difficult to see amongst vegetation. When in flight, the darker outer parts of their wings can be seen and contrasted clearly with the warm brown throughout the rest of the bird.
American Bittern - CT.gov
网页Status: State endangered. Identification: Adult American bitterns are large, somewhat stocky birds with yellow eyes, rich brown upperparts, and a white throat that is offset by black streaks. Dark flight feathers are conspicuous on the wing tips when the birds are in flight. The sexes are similar in appearance.