Bittern is a classification of wading birds in the heron family.

Bittern may also refer to:

Places

  • Bittern, Victoria, a town in Australia
  • Bittern railway station, on the Stony Point line
  • Bittern Lake, a village in Alberta, Canada
  • Bittern Line a railway in Norfolk, England

Vehicles

  • LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern, a preserved British steam locomotive
  • Boulton Paul Bittern, a British fighter aircraft design of the 1920s
  • HMS Bittern, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
  • USS Bittern, several ships in the United States Navy
  • Bittern-class sloop a three-ship class of long-range escort vessels used in the Second World War by the Royal Navy

Other

  • Bittern (salt), a waste product of solar salt operations rich in magnesium sulfate
  • Operation Bittern, a British military operation in World War II

See also

  • Bitterne, a suburb of Southampton, England
  • Bitter (disambiguation)