American Bittern Images, Facts and Information:
Botaurus lentiginosus
- American Bitterns have brown, buff and white streaked plumage, long, sharp bills, yellow to orange eyes, short legs and compact bodies.
- American Bitterns are migratory and will spend winters where there is open water.
- American Bitterns eat small fish and mammals, insects, crayfish and amphibians.
- Their preferred habit includes marshes and wetlands with tall vegetation.
- American Bitterns lay 2 to 7 eggs which take 24 to 28 days to hatch. The female incubates and they are primarily monogamous.
- Nicknames for American Bitterns include “stake-driver”, “water-belcher” and “thunder-pumper”.
- A group of bitterns can be called a “siege”, “pretense”, “dash” and “freeze” of bitterns.
- American Bitterns can live to be 8 years old.
I hope you enjoy viewing my American Bittern photos.
Springtime American Bittern in the marsh at Bear River MBR
Title: Springtime American Bittern in the marsh at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/2/2019
January American Bittern on the bank of the Bear River
Title: January American Bittern on the bank of the Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/17/2018
Riverbank and camouflaged American Bittern
Title: Riverbank and camouflaged American Bittern
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/17/2018
American Bittern in a northern Utah marsh
Title: American Bittern in a northern Utah marsh
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/21/2017
Fluffed up American Bittern
Title: Fluffed up American Bittern
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/27/2016
Bear River MBR American Bittern
Title: Bear River MBR American Bittern
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/27/2016
American Bittern scratching
Title: American Bittern scratching
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/27/2016
American Bittern adult
Title: American Bittern adult
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/27/2016
American Bittern on a pile of dead rushes
Title: American Bittern on a pile of dead rushes
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/27/2016
American Bittern out in the open
Title: American Bittern out in the open
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/27/2016
American Bittern standing on one leg
Title: American Bittern standing on one leg
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 7/27/2016