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Australasian Bittern № 175

Australasian Bittern

Botaurus poiciloptilus

Its boom is one suggested explanation for colonial bunyip reports, Hexham Swamp's among them, and it is still called the bunyip bird. Its stronghold now is the Riverina's rice fields.

Photo · Christopher Stephens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · craig wilson · CC BY 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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