Directory of Bitterns Resources

Home > Kids and Teens > School Time > Science > Living Things > Animals > Birds > Wading Birds > Bitterns

Bitterns are members of a large family of wading birds that includes 65 species of egrets, night-herons, typical herons, tiger-herons, and bitterns. Famous for the ability to blend in, when threatened the bittern stands perfectly still in the reeds with its beak pointing straight up.

These smaller hunters feed on small fish, frogs, and invertebrates. More active at dawn and dusk, bitterns hunt quietly among the reedbeds and undergrowth.

Although most species are recovering, the destruction of wetlands and the use of pesticides puts them at risk.

Resources in This Category

• American Bittern

  http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?q=325954
  Provides description, habitat, diet, breeding and wintering ranges, reasons for decline, and how to help.

• Least Bittern

  http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?q=326030
  Describes size, coloring, habitat, diet, migration, reasons for decline, and how to help protect this threatened wading bird.

 

Home > Kids and Teens > School Time > Science > Living Things > Animals > Birds > Wading Birds > Bitterns

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us