The Bitterns.
Nature Notes
By
James Drummond,
F.L.S., F.Z.S.
BITTERN kept in captivity in the Acclimatisation Society’s Gardens in Christchurch years ago had an amiable disposition. It readily took meat and other food offered, strutted amongst other captive birds, did not people admiring its silky costume, and evidently found captivity much to its liking. A bittern kept by Sir Walter Buller in his aviary in Wellington had a quarrelsome disposition. When approached, it erected or spread the feathers on its neck and threw its wings forward, presenting a bold front to an enemy. If anything was placed close to it. it struck out furiously with its bayonet-bill. It often angrily attacked the network of its prison. It refused to take any sort of food, and died of starvation, fierce and untameable to the last.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 563, 17 September 1932, Page 8
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