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Little bittern

Species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The little bittern is a wading bird in the heron family, Ardeidae. This species was formerly placed in the genus Ixobrychus.

Editorial summary

“Little bittern” enters the record as species of bird. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Little, bittern and Species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Little, bittern and Species.
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“Little bittern” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Little, bittern and Species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 17, 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Little bittern” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.