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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StuartReeves" data-source="post: 3523336" data-attributes="member: 12155">I have American Bittern on my Danish list as a heard only. It was an inaccessible displaying bird which was widely twitched and ticked on call so it would have been churlish for me to do otherwise. I'm not sure I'd have ticked it if I hadn't seen the species in the US.I twitched a singing Thrush Nightingale in Suffolk one spring. I was prepared to tick it on song if it didn't show on the basis that song is one of the best ID features and I've seen a few of them elsewhere. As it turned out I only heard a short burst of song which wasn't enough to put the ID beyond doubt so it was a case of untickable audio.</blockquote>