There are not a few Bitterns which are birds which only fly a very little, and run uncommonly well when they are chased.
She listened to the cooing of the doves, the booming of the bitterns in the reeds, and the drumming of the snipe high in air.
Herons and Bitterns fly with a fold in the neck, the head being drawn in; Ibises and Spoonbills fly with the neck straight, the head being extended.
The Bitterns and Herons unlike our other long-legged wading birds, fly with a fold in the neck.
The Bitterns are usually solitary birds inhabiting grassy or reedy marshes where their colors harmonize with their surroundings and render them difficult to see.
The bird-stuffer in Alderney (Mr. Grieve) and his friend told me they had shot Bitterns in that island, but did not remember the date.
I didn't know you Bitternswere near, so I told Dot to make a noise in the hope of frightening them.
Much good she'd have been to you with the Blacks, and their dogs after you, if we Bitterns hadn't played that old trick of ours of scaring them with our big voices.
And about eighty miles north of here there is a mud flat where great numbers of mallards are assembling for migration northwards: and there are more bitterns there than there are higher up even.
I expect the mallards will migrate northwards, and the teal soon afterwards will become very scarce, but I hope the bitterns will stay where they are.
These diminutive little bitterns are very shy and retiring, and seldom seen away from the reed grown marshes or ponds that they frequent.
Bitterns are found in bogs or marshes; they remain concealed by the tall grass until any intruder is very near, before they take flight.
Bitterns have a great many local names, most of which refer to the peculiar pumping noise that the male makes during the mating season.
Then the Last-of-the-Bitterns gave Bill a peck which it took him a month to get over.
He suddenly became very obstinate, and determined to find out what the Last-of-the-Bitterns looked like.
Much good she'd have been to you with the blacks, and their dogs after you, if we Bitterns hadn't played that old trick of ours of scaring them with our big voices.
Rails as a rule are smaller thanbitterns and frequent grassy marshes where they steal stealthily about, effectively concealed by their dull streaky plumage.
Bitterns have shorter legs, necks and bills than herons and are very rarely crested.
He heard the bitterns call From ruined palace-wall, Answered them brotherly.
If any mice were watching--and their beady bright eyes are always watching--they may well have congratulated themselves that the pair of bitterns had chosen this particular island for their nesting-place.
The two bitterns nimbly extricated themselves, and with wings pounding, stabbed savagely, again and again, at the unresisting body of the hawk.
The angry bitterns were after him on the instant, flying as low as possible and stabbing down at him through the grass-stems.
McElroy found bitterns in taro patches at Truk in December, 1945.
In the North Kent marshesBitterns were called “Yaller French Herns,” and the fen dwellers could get half a guinea for each bird.
That a pair of Bitterns which had been observed for some little time on an estate near Hertford should have been shot lately, 1908, and that just before breeding season, is a fact to be deplored.
When we reached the end of the slew, we turned south and crossed the creek just above the pond which we called Plum Pudd'n' Pond, from the number of bitterns that lived there.
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