For the first time in more than 40 years, the distinctive booming call of the endangered Australasian bittern once again rings out across the waters of Tasmania’s Lagoon of Islands.

Boomer’s own species – the Australasian bittern – is down to about its last thousand birds and author and writer Angela Cushnie shaped her book around the cryptic wetland bird and the ...

For the first time in more than 40 years, the distinctive booming call of the endangered Australasian bittern once again rings out across the waters of Tasmania’s Lagoon of Islands.