heron

• Other curious local names of birds in Worcestershire are “Blue Isaac” for hedge sparrow, “mumruffin” for long-tailed tit, “maggot” for magpie, and the heron is always called “bittern” (really quite a distinct bird). —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• For the bird was a heron, which is something like a stork that lives on chimneys in a country called Holland. —  Bully and Bawly No-Tail
• He stamped his long legs on the ground and said all sorts of mean things, just because Bully didn’t want to be eaten up Now I wonder how I’m going to get away from here without that bird biting me?” thought poor Bully, after a while Well, it did seem a hard thing to do, for the heron was there waiting for Bully to come out, when he would jab his bill right through the frog boy. —  Bully and Bawly No-Tail
• In England, although the heron is a native, we rarely seem to see him; while to study him is extremely difficult. —  A Wanderer in Holland
• Soon the attack would begin, and Owen remembered that the heron is armed with a beak on which a hawk might be speared, for is it not recorded that to defend himself the heron has raised his head and spitted the descending hawk, the force of the blow breaking the heron's neck and both birds coming down dead together Now will this happen?" —  Sister Teresa

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