Nesting Bitterns
Sir, —In your issue of March 8, I was interested to read that Dr. M. T. Soper had captured on film for the first time a nesting bittern. The article went on to say that some vandal had killed the chicks. Many of our birds resent anyone, going near their nests and will either destroy their eggs and young or will desert them. The native pigeon, the kingfisher, and the goldfinch, to mention a few, will do this. Is it not possible that the bitterns resented the presence of Dr. Soper and killed their chicks? The mere fact that one chick died first and after nis visit the remaining three were also killed points to the birds themselves as the culprits and not to any intruder. —Yours, etc., BIRD-LOVER. March 10, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 3
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