WHEN FEW DAYS OLD, YOUNG BITTERN Ml (.IN TO STRIKE THE SAME ATTITUDE AS THEIR PARI-.NI- 



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Thoft brown*ndblue-grccnsharmonise with the dull sheaths of the young reeds; the nestling bittern is thus completely camouflaged. 



