FW: Maybe we should call it Tiny Bittern :)

["Geoffrey Dabb via Canberrabirds " <>]

Maybe, Shorty, but that is not a comparative label, and an American relative has claimed the title ‘Least Bittern’.  Cornell Lab Birds of the World gives our chap as 59-120g, which is from HANZAB 1990 which gives mean of that sample as 83.9g (all Sept-Mar).  Pretty old information- It seems bittern-weighing has fallen from fashion, with so many other attractions for young people these days..   Cornell’s mean for male Least Bittern is 78.2g.  I haven’t checked other species in group.  All pretty small birds though. That Australasian Grebe paddling past the ALB is 100-230g.  It would lose the stretched-length competition, though.

 

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Catching plenty of Dragonflies this afternoon.

 

Shorty

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