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the water 



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They were exactly like the nests of Purple 

 Herons I have taken in Spain and Hungary. The eggs in 

 both nests of Great White Herons were very light in 

 colour, as light in fact as the eggs of Buff-backed 

 Herons. 



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A Nesting-place of the Great White Heron in Central Hungary. 



The Hungarian fishermen who took us into the reed-bed 

 in their small flat-bottomed boats told us that the Great 

 White Herons never nested in colonies, but that the nests 

 were always some distance one from another. It is, 

 however, I think, quite possible that, in countries where 

 these birds are still numerous and unmolested, they may 

 breed in colonies like other species of Herons. 



