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Environmental water flow reaches wetland triggering big breeding event for rare, endangered bitterns TueTuesday 12 An Australian little bittern chick sits with an unhatched egg in the Yanga National Park. ( Print text only Cancel A bittern breeding boom in a New South Wales Riverina wetlands is being heralded as a significant step forward for the secretive water bird species. Key points: Environmental water is being heralded as the catalyst for the breeding event Up to 350 gigalitres of environmental water is likely to be made available for the Murrumbidgee Valley in 2021 Last week, during a research trip to Yanga National Park on the Lowbidgee floodplain near Balranald, wildlife ecologist Matt Herring discovered the nests and live chicks of both the endangered Australasian bittern and the near-threatened Australian little bittern. ....