Least Bittern

Least Bittern

Botaurus exilis

Birdstrong against fish, reptiles

Common

Swoop

While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).

31

34

35

Botaurus exilis

Photo: © Matt Felperin (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

• Fish
• Reptiles

Weak against

• Mammals
• Arachnids

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

1. LC
2. NT
3. VU
4. EN
5. CR
6. EX

Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.

Observations

6,791 on iNaturalist

Adult mass

86 g

Diet

Carnivore

Its known vertebrate prey (GloBI)

• Card Banded Killifish
• Card Creek Chub
• Bluegill
• Dormitator maculatus
• Xiphophorus hellerii
• and 3 more

Wikipedia (French) ↗iNaturalist ↗

Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

Every Common card has 100 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

• HP 31
• ATK 34
• DEF 35

How they’re shared out:

Type

Bird: HP 33, ATK 31 and DEF 36 out of 100 to start.

Popularity

6,791 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.

Predator

8 known vertebrate prey: extra ATK.

Size

86 g: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.

Variation

A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.