Powdermill Nature Reserve

Avian Research Center

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American Bittern

American Bittern, a large brown bird
American Bittern closeup of the head and beak

October 2001. The American Bittern is a regular spring and fall migrant at Powdermill, but this is only the third one ever banded here (the others were in May 1986 and October 1998).