BRITAIN is going blooming mad over Barnsley’s booming bitterns.
The BBC’s popular Springwatch programme broadcast live from the RSPB Old Moor reserve on Wednesday, focusing on the centre’s success in encouraging the rare species to breed there.
The wading bird, which faced extinction in the UK in the late 1990s, has seen a renaissance at the Broomhill reserve, where efforts to save its favoured wetland habitat have been made.
Known as Britain’s loudest bird due to the booming call of the male, three pairs are believed to have bred there this spring.
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