Bittern standing still with reeds behind

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Bittern standing still with reeds behind - Bittern
Otmoor RSPB Nature Reserve, near Beckley, Oxfordshire (March 2009)

Showed well on Big Otmoor

For more information on this bird species see the following links:
Eurasian Bittern / Internet Bird Collection
Eurasian Bittern / Bird Forum
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species / Botaurus stellaris

Bittern on Big Otmoor


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