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A strange bird is
the Bittern, that inhabitant of the Fenlands and the reed beds,
which once common in Britain, was exterminated as a breeding species,
but has
come back and is now well re-established on the Norfolk Broads. Here
in early
summer we may hear the male calling, uttering that booming note like
the bellow
of a bull or the roar of the foghorn. Here too female makes her nest
in the depths
of the reed bed, and rears her quaint chicks, so strange looking in
sandy-red down
with greenish beaks and feet.
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