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noun - relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry
The bitter water solution of bromides, magnesium, and calcium salts remaining after sodium chloride is crystallized out of seawater.
noun - a wading bird
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| a large marshbird of the heron family, which is typically smaller than a heron, with brown streaked plumage. The larger kinds are noted for the deep booming call of the male in the breeding season. |
| relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry found in marshes |
| a type of European water bird that has long legs and is related to the heron |
| Any of several wading birds of the genera Botaurus and Ixobrychus, having mottled brownish plumage and a deep booming cry in the male. |
| The bitter water solution of bromides, magnesium, and calcium salts remaining after sodium chloride is crystallized out of seawater. |
| A large marshbird of the heron family, which is typically smaller than a heron, with brown streaked plumage. The larger kinds are noted for the deep booming call of the male in the breeding season. |
| A concentrated solution of various salts remaining after the crystallization of salt from seawater. |
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Bittern is a common name given to birds belonging to the subfamily Botaurinae of the heron family Ardeidae. Bitterns tend to be shorter necked and more secretive than other members of the family. They were called hæferblæte in Old English; the word "bittern" came to English from Old French butor, itself from Gallo-Roman butitaurus, a compound of Latin bti and taurus.. * Bitterns usually frequent reed beds and similar marshy areas, and feed on amphibians, reptiles, insects, and fish. * Unlike the similar storks, ibises, and spoonbills, herons, egrets, pelicans, and bitterns fly with their necks retracted, not outstretched. * The genus Ixobrychus contains mainly small species:* Little bittern, Ixobrychus minutus * Australian little bittern, Ixobrychus dubius * New Zealand little bittern, Ixobrychus novaezelandiae (extinct) * Cinnamon bittern, Ixobrychus cinnamomeus * Stripe-backed bittern, Ixobrychus involucris * Least bittern, Ixobrychus exilis * Yellow bittern, Ixobrychus sinensis * Schrenck's bittern |