Least bittern

Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Aug 19, 2019.


With the high water this year bitterns and rails are harder to find out in the marsh.
We had a good day with shorebirds, sandhill crane, green heron and assorted gulls and terns.

Ixobrychus exilis
Perhaps surprisingly, tiny Least Bitterns use areas with deeper water than the much larger, longer-legged American Bittern. Least Bitterns can do this because their long, agile toes and curved claws allow them to grasp reeds and hunt small prey while suspended from these precarious over-water perches.
source- Cornell lab of ornithology.

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