Staff at a wildlife reserve on Stockton have been celebrating hearing the mating sounds of the loudest bird in Britain for the first time. The distinctive "booming" call of the male bittern was last ...

A bittern recently photographed at Kaituna wetland. Photo / Mathew Herring Tanner’s Point residents may be hearing a new sound echoing across the peninsular - a deep, low-pitched ‘’boom’' at dawn or ...