Booming bitterns
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2025
- This year the annual butterbump survey has recorded another increase with 198 booming male bitterns found at 89 sites across England and Wales, of which 102 were found on RSPB reserves.
For 2020, we would request that the many volunteers, conservation site staff and landowners continue to monitor sites for booming males and nesting attempts as has happened this year. Given the increasing number of successful nests reported across the country, it is increasingly likely that new and formerly-occupied sites will become occupied by booming Bitterns in the near future. The RSPB will aim to collate all the records, with the intention of producing a similar report next year. To report any observations this season, or to request a copy of the survey methods and recording forms, please contact me on the details below.
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Stapleton: "Did you ever hear a bittern booming? "
Watson: "No, I never did. "
The Hound of the Baskerville's brought me here too!
Ha ha 😂 me too
"Bogs make queer noises sometimes."
Where can I find a video of a bittern booming, please?
Yep me too. What a fantastic book
I actually heard a bittern for the first time today on my walk! How lovely.
It is a real rare and special moment that you must never forget if you do manage to catch a mere glimpse of these secretive birds, Ive actually been privileged enough to to spot one on the Norfolk broads once when I was out there pike fishing and ill never forget how special the brief glimpse I got of one was as it flew in to the reeds was
Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskerville's (1939) brought me here.
mee too
Same here!
I am currently reading it.
@@saramalsawmi3824 If you ever get chance to, watch the Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies (14 in total). You will not regret it! They take the books to a whole new level. 👍
@@icecold2042 I will, after I finish reading the original. Thanks btw
I live in a very green part of Central London as a child in the 1980 I used to see out of the windows sparrows playing chase , dancing and frolicking from branch to branch of trees, during the winter it was more visible because the tress where bare and I would stare out of the window watching them play outside but I could not because of the bitter cold. However during the 1990 they dissappeared and I could not see one sparrow. Recently they have come back and one day I heard so many birds chrpung out the window when I looked outside I saw about 20 sparrows playing and it made me very nostalgic. I think they have come back because the authorities have blocked of many of the roads in our areas to decrease traffic and air pollution.
Beautiful to see their numbers increasing. 11 males to nearly 200 is incredible! We have an endangered bittern in Australia (the Australasian Bittern) and they're considered endangered while their population is just under 1000 on the continent. A long way to go for the bitterns of English and Wales to get to that point, but I hope it does happen with continued conservation effort and monitoring.
It is great news to hear the numbers of this species are on the rise.
Well done to all involved with conservation projects everywhere, for all creatures.
Such a shame to hear they went extinct in the 1800s but brilliant that you managed resurrect them somehow
See Jurassic Park. Same technology.
Extinct in Britain but not elsewhere. So some flew to Britain later.
how did they breed new ones if they went extinct?
I wanna use this as my ringtone! Thanks, Mr. Stapleton.
"What is Britain's loudest bird" was a question on The Chase earlier this week.
Wonderful! I hope to hear one one day 😊
I heard one for the first time this week, always wanted to hear the booming since I learned about it as a child.
Great that you helped them increasing so much. I hope your fantastic work isn`t put at an end and that maybe in 50 or 100 years , there shall be so many of them again...
I just wish we could say the same for the rest of our wildlife which has been decimated over my 60yr lifetime.
Thank you for including so much audio of the bittern really booming away, which is what most of us came here for I should think. Of course, I can’t actually hear the slightest note of it, meaning that the bittern must have an exclusively subsonic boom, inaudible to the naked ear, as it were. An enlightening observation, to be sure.
@@ringkichardthethrid7147 I'm actually losing my mind I can't find audio of it anywhere
Strange look these birds have. You get the impression (this straight ahead look), that they're pretending not to notice that they're being watched.
I heard my first ever bittern booming yesterday - 17th January! Spring is here!
@@mlm7609 It was on the Somerset Levels, not far from Glastonbury.
@@mlm7609 Near Ham Wall in the Somerset Levels.
I’ve just seen videos of American bitterns, and they sound somewhat similar, except they click their upper and lower beaks together a few times before they begin. I wonder if these do the same, but it’s cut off in the beginning?
Hi! Great question. The Eurasian Bittern is know to do this too.
Everything you ever wanted to know about bitterns. EXCEPT the actual noise they make! Smh
The sound is right at the beginning it’s sounds like a pipe
Literally at 1 second in is a booming Bittern, that IS the noise they make... smh
@@Eddyn6 ah, yes. Quite a boom. Leave me alone dude don't you have better things to do
Try using earbuds or headphones.
If you use headphones 🎧 you can hear 👂 it
Ornithology, My Dear Watson.
Such a beautiful bird.
Wonderful work!
@0:35 - AH HA HA !! He has a Mohican !
I've seen this bird before, about 80 times in fact but I am sadly no logner the last Norwegian to have seen this bird due to a sighting today, this is day 1 of me commenting until I reclaim my rightful place as the last Norwegian to have seen one of these birds! Its my goal to comment here everyday until I see one again!
The Eurasian bittern, a marshland maestro of concealment, unfurls its symphony of existence amidst the dense, emerald curtains of the wetlands. This elusive creature, with its cryptic plumage and secretive demeanor, is a silent sentinel of the waterways, a feathered enigma that has captured the imagination of nature enthusiasts for centuries. The bittern's haunting calls echo through the reeds, a sonorous serenade that pierces the stillness, hinting at the unseen drama unfolding within the aquatic theater.
The Eurasian bittern, or Botaurus stellaris, is a member of the heron family, yet it has chosen a path less trodden by its more conspicuous kin. Standing tall and stoic, it blends seamlessly with the vegetation, a master of disguise that could give even the chameon a run for its money. Its mottled brown and beige feathers, tinged with a whisper of iridescence, mimic the very essence of the reeds and grasses that are its home, a silent, watchful ghost of the marsh.
The bittern's eyes, set high and wide on its elongated head, are like twin pools of amber, perpetually vigilant for the flicker of a silver fish beneath the water's surface. It is a skilled angler, wielding its sharp beak with the precision of a fencer's rapier. In a flash, it strikes, spearing its prey with unerring accuracy, a silent predator in a world of whispers and ripples.
Yet, it is the bittern's mating season that truly sets it apart from the avian choir. The male's booming call, a deep, resonant sound that seems to emanate from the very soul of the marsh itself, is a declaration of love and territorial claim rolled into one. This "booming" is a sonorous symphony that reverberates through the wetlands, a bass note so low it is felt more than heard, a declaration that sends shivers down the spines of those who dare to venture too close.
The Eurasian bittern's courtship dance is a mesmerizing spectacle, a ballet of feathers and flutters that leaves the observer spellbound. The male inflates its throat, a pouch that extends down to its chest, and with a series of deep, resonant booms, it fills the air with its love song. This display is accompanied by the lifting and spreading of its wings, a visual fanfare that adds an extra dimension to the acoustic performance.
Heard one tonight in Somersham cambs local nature reserve, bottom lake.
What is that very loud bird that was singing that whole time?
Their boom is quite a common sound these days in the Norfolk Broads.
I could swear I heard three bittern booms today in Wandsworth at about 3pm 31 Jan. Could it travel as far as from Barnes Wetlands centre to Wandsworth?
Isaiah 14:23 brought me here
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 14:23 KJV
day 13 of commenting here. The crazy part is a second one was actually found today again even tho the last time before the previous one was 6 years, its beyond coincidental💀
I don’t think it’s possible for an animal to come back from extinction. “They were believed to be extinct in 1970” might be more accurate: otherwise, what bird is this in the video?
To clarify, they were extinct from the UK in the late 19th century . The nat some point, Bitterns from outside of the country potentially came here, leading to breeding Bitterns being found here again in 1911.
I really like these birds…….we have them in Australia as well 🙌💖
Only 11 ?
They went extinct in the 1800s but then resurrected. A miracle. But as Miracle Max said, "Almost dead is not all dead."
ive heard the Bittern on my farm all year. Ive just realised what it was..
These birds can emit a subsonic frequency
is this the Eurasian bittern???????????
I heard one at Leighton Moss. First time in years. April’20
bassBOOSTED birds 🎵🎵
If something can become extinct, and then come back to life a few decades later. What is all the fuss about?
Hm, likely story, Stapleton.
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Amazing birds
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Hound of Baskervilles (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson) brought me here.
Once bittern twice shy...
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First time I seen one today thought it sounded like a lion
Heard one this morning at Strumpsham Fen ! Was hopping for a cuckoo but I’ll take a bittern!
Captions say they went extinct... was that supposed to be, almost extinct?
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Doesn't sound like the bitterns in Dot and The Kangaroo.. those things were screaming, this just sounds like loud mumble
The photographing of one in northants uk and the connection with the bible brought me here
"They went extinct... and almost vanished again in the 90's... ". ???
WUT!!?
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I can actually imitate a booming bittern!
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The 'EU funding' was our tax money coming back to us, for this superb cause.
It is literally not booming. WTF
wow
blowing across a milk bottle
Beauotufl animal love it im in science class rn
I know this breaks established convention but; birb
198 ? Hunters: Time to shoot them hehuaheia.
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Due to EU funding we are able to enjoy them again.
Đã quá👍👍🦜🦜❤❤❤
Could we clone them to help their dwindling population?
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