Least Bittern Range Map
The Least Bittern breeds locally from southern Oregon to central Baja California and southern coastal Sonora in the west; in the east across Canada from southern Manitoba, southern Ontario and southern New Brunswick south to Texas, the Gulf Coast, Florida and the Greater Antilles. It winters from southern California, southern Texas and northern Florida south to Panama and Colombia. The Least Bittern inhabits freshwater marshes, bogs and swamps with dense cattails, reeds, bulrushes, buttonbush, sawgrass, smartweeds, arrowheads and other tall aquatic and semi-aquatic vegetation. It prefers marshes with scattered bushes or other woody growth. The Least Bittern is less commonly found in coastal brackish marshes and mangrove swamps and is usually hidden in tall vegetation, and slips away by walking or climbing through reeds or even by running through them 2 to 3 feet above water, grasping a single reed or several in each foot.

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