Eurasian bittern or great bittern, Botaurus stellaris. Ardea stellaris, Ardea stel. minore. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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