• A record year for booming male bitterns
    Guest blog by Simon Wotton, Conservation Scientist, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science The Bittern is an elusive bird seen occasionally skulking through reedbeds looking for fish or flying over a...
  • Bitterns are booming!
    The song of the bittern is an amazing sound - a deep cow-like moo-ing noise. If you didn't know that it was a heron hiding out in the reeds you might be quite worried by the noise. But the increase...
  • Another successful year for the UK’s breeding Cranes
    New figures show Cranes continue to recover after going extinct in the UK 400 years ago. In today’s blog Andrew Stanbury, RSPB Conservation Scientist, takes us through their comeback and how conservation...
  • Booming bittern bounce-back continues
    Header image: Juvenile bittern, approx. 35 days old, at RSPB Middleton Lakes, Credit: Mark Smiles Bitterns have successfully raised young in the West Midlands for the first time in more than a century...
  • Bitterns - another booming year
    Bitterns have had their most successful year since they recolonised the UK in 1911. This year there have been 86 booming males - up from last year's 82 (and we had thought the cold winter might clobber...