Also known to be in the area were: Wild Turkey, American Bittern, Broad-winged Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Pileated Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Scarlet Tanager, American Woodcock, Bicknell's Thrush, Blackpoll Warbler, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Broad-winged Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker, Scarlet Tanager, and Swainson's Thrush.

* Botaurus lentiginosus American Bittern

American Bittern attempting to hide

American Bittern, Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

The American Bittern ( Botaurus lentiginosus )

Although common in much of its range, the American Bittern is usually well-hidden in bogs, marshes and wet meadows.

If it senses that it has been seen, the American Bittern becomes motionless, with its bill pointed upward, causing it to blend into the reeds.

Like other members of the heron family, the American Bittern feeds in marshes and shallow ponds, dining on amphibians, fish, insects and reptiles.

However, fossils found in the Ichetucknee River, Florida, and originally described as a new form of heron ( Palaeophoyx columbiana ; McCoy, 1963 ) were later recognized to be a smaller, prehistoric subspecies of the American Bittern which lived during the Late Pleistocene ( Olson, 1974 ) and would thus be called B. l. columbianus.

* United States Geological Survey general info on American Bittern

* Enature. com -- American Bittern

American Bittern

American Bittern

Bitterns are thickset herons with bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars, similar in appearance to the to the American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosa.

* American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosa.

* South American Bittern, Botaurus pinnatus

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Most notable among these are the Red-necked Grebe, American White Pelican, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Red Tailed Hawk, American Bittern and the Trumpeter Swan.

A partial list is: Common Loon, Great Blue Heron, American Bittern, American Black Duck, Wood Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Broad-winged Hawk, Ruffed Grouse, American Woodcock, Common Snipe, Spotted Sandpiper, Herring Gull, Barred Owl, Saw-whet Owl, Whip-poor-will, Common Nighthawk, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Belted Kingfisher, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Grey Jay, Blue Jay, Common Raven, Common Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, Boreal Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, American Robin, Wood Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Swainson's Thrush, Veery, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Cedar Waxwing, Common Starling, Red-eyed Vireo, Warblers, Red-winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Evening Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch, Dark-eyed Junco, Chipping Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow and Song Sparrow

* American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus.

* Pinnated Bittern or South American Bittern, Botaurus pinnatus

), American bitterns ( Botaurus lentiginosa ), great egret ( Ardea alba ), snowy egret ( Egretta thula ), mergansers and belted kingfishers ( Megaceryle alcyon ), utilize beaver ponds for fishing.

), northern shrike ( Larius borealis ), black-billed magpie ( Pica pica ), common raven ( Corvus corvax ), American crow ( C. brachyrhynchos ), great blue heron ( Ardea herodias ), and American bittern ( Botaurus lentiginosus ).

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Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

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