RSPB confident that bitterns, once extinct in the UK, have successfully bred at newly restored wetland on the island. Elusive bitterns have successfully bred on the Isle of Wight for the first time on ...

Record numbers of bittern booming calls have been heard in Yorkshire during the bird's breeding season, the RSPB has said. One of the rarest breeding birds in the UK, the bittern is also Britain's ...

One of the UK's rarest birds has bred on a nature reserve near Hull for the first time in its history. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT) said a juvenile bittern was spotted at North Cave wetlands last ...

SOMETIMES the cold season after Christmas gets a bad reputation; the days feel dark, the weather can be a little wetter than we might like, and we’ve certainly seen some rain last month. It can be ...