- The
least bittern (Botaurus exilis) is a
small heron, the
smallest member of the
family Ardeidae found in the Americas. This
species was
formerly placed...
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Bitterns are
birds belonging to the
subfamily Botaurinae of the
heron family Ardeidae.
Bitterns tend to be shorter-necked and more
secretive than other...
- 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...
- The
Eurasian bittern or
great bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a
wading bird in the
bittern subfamily (Botaurinae) of the
heron family Ardeidae. There...
- The
little bittern (Botaurus minutus) is a
wading bird in the
heron family, Ardeidae. This
species was
formerly placed in the
genus Ixobrychus. The little...
- or
bitterns rather than herons.
Members of the
genus Botaurus are
referred to as
bitterns, and,
together with the
zigzag heron, or
zigzag bittern, in...
- The black-backed
bittern (Botaurus dubius), also
known as the black-backed
least bittern or
Australian little bittern, is a little-known
species of heron...
- (Actinemys pallida),
fulvous whistling duck (Dendrocygna bicolor),
least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis),
California red-legged frog (Rana
aurora draytonii)...
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Bittern (pl.
bitterns), or nigari, is the salt
solution formed when
halite (table salt)
precipitates from
seawater or brines.
Bitterns contain magnesium...
- its
similar looking sister clade,
including the
least bittern (Botaurus exilis). The stripe-backed
bittern was
formally described in 1823 by the
French ornithologist...
