The Bittern Botaurus stellaris was the first of six former breeding birds to recolonise Britain this century, preceding the next, the Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, by 35 years. This paper draws together for the first time the rather scattered references in the literature to the recolonisation and subsequent range and population fluctuations. The results of a national census in spring 1976 are pre
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