A stocky and well-camouflaged heron of dense reed beds, the American bittern is difficult to see.    From LearnThat.org.  [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Bittern.html]

In bird terms, the bittern is the conservation success of the decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

Of the bittern, which is said to boom continually over the Friesland meres.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference

"bittern" or "mother liquid," contains chiefly a concentration of the salts of magnesium and potassium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

The wind howls and the bittern shrieks, she replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Acts] Reference

Gardens, was heard to murmur, "Once bittern, twice shy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917] Reference

I don't see how there can be two kinds of least bittern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference

The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the houp also and the bat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference

Raucous music filled the streets from bittern and flute, harp and hammered dulcimer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Reborn]

Someone had a bittern, strumming a raucous tune to clapping and the thump of dancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunt]

“Myre dromble” was an old name for a bittern, meaning a sluggish bird of the marshes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Other important birds seen in the area include the American bittern and the upland sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference

Of herons there are three kinds: the ash coloured, the white, and the starry heron (or bittern).    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Somebody in that one was playing the bittern; "Heron on the Wing," it sounded like, but the tune was dispirited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

The substitution of potassium chlorate for pyrolusite is recommended when calcium chloride is present in the bittern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The sunset gold still glowed on the lawn, and the bittern still boomed as announcing some small but dreadful destiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Father Brown Omnibus]

The claim is the admixture of bittern water, carbonate of soda, and carbonate of ammonia with the washed slag and cement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference

Unjoint him this bittern, frust me this chicken, display yon crane, thigh her her pigeon, unlace allay rabbit and pheasant!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

And it was worthy of the lamentations of the prophet Isaiah, for one could say that the cormorant and the bittern possessed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gospel according to the Son]

The bittern pastured his flocks on rich green meadows where flowers grew in abundance, so his cows became wild and unmanageable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Tales] Reference

Van Tyne and Sutton (1937: 14) saw two representatives of this bittern "along the Río Grande not far from Hot Springs," Texas, on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference

July 10, 2007, 4:28 pm bittern says: . . . and then when in office fights against wind power on the ground that windmills might be ugly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Senators, Prostitution, and Crime:] Reference

One of the rarest of British birds, the great bittern, is reported to have been seen in the Eastern counties during the recent cold spell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917] Reference

Plus the wading birds; Great Blue Heron, black-crowned night heron, little green heron, what I think is a bittern not to mention the Egrets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird lists] Reference

Endangered Species: Rare species found at Piermont Marsh include least bittern, osprey, bald eagle, peregrine falcon and diamondback terrapin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York] Reference

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaiah 14.] Reference

Tetrao urogallus, Eurasian bittern Botaurus stellaris.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Of particular concern are the bittern and the Dartford warbler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The great bustard, the crane, and bittern have been driven away by cultivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

We no longer heard the discordant shriek of the parrots, or the hoarse croaking note of the bittern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference

The bittern, whose population reached a record 82 males last year, is also likely to have been badly affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference

His brother, Justin, 11, drew the club's patch - a profile of an American bittern with lettering overtop in a semi-circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sports news from standardspeaker.com] Reference

The bittern sighting follows excitement last year, when a white stork made itself at home in the district for several weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [HX News and Sport] Reference

On our first arrival at the Depot there was a bittern, Ardetta flavicollis, that frequented the creek in considerable numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference

The first bittern was heard at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust site in Barnes, South-West London, last month - three months early.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Experienced birdwatchers have been amazed to see a bittern striding through marshland at Low Prudhoe, close to the Prudhoe bypass.    From Wordnik.com.  [HX News and Sport] Reference

More which thirty methods of in progress have been enclosed - stir fry, sauté, low fry, grill, preserve, bittern, bake as well as pickle.    From Wordnik.com.  [mvblogosphere] Reference