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I take photos of little birds such as Bittern birds and they are reproduced really well.
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I take photos of little birds such as Bittern birds and they are reproduced really well.
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"The Bittern is a shy and solitary bird; it is never seen on the wing in the daytime, but sits, generally with the head erect, hid among the reeds and rushes of extensive marshes, from whence it will not stir, unless disturbed by the sportsman.
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Tim is also an award-winning playwright, and his environmental drama The Cry of the Bittern won a Public Awareness of Science Drama Award in 1998.
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Tim is also an award-winning playwright, and his environmental drama The Cry of the Bittern won a Public Awareness of Science Drama Award in 1998.
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Tim is also an award-winning playwright, and his environmental drama The Cry of the Bittern won a Public Awareness of Science Drama Award in 1998.
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"I have seen the American Bittern and she hasn't," Ranger Del Pilar added, trying to save belated face.
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I was impressed by the group of excitable orange-suited RailTrack engineers who were making a fuss over Bittern a sister locomotive to Mallard on a rare excursion down south.
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I was impressed by the group of excitable orange-suited RailTrack engineers who were making a fuss over Bittern a sister locomotive to Mallard on a rare excursion down south.
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(The final death toll, proudly printed on the last page, is "Pigs 10; Snipe 45; Deer6; Plover 6; Jackalls [sic] 6; Pigeons 24; Hares4; Swan 1; Geese13; Bittern 1; Duck54; Sea Pheasant 7; Widgeon152; Bargander [?] 3; Teal102; Grebe Duck 4; Woodcock 203.")
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