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The Living World - Herons

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Until recently only two members of the heron family bred in the UK. Today in southern England four species now regularly breed. Could a fifth species of heron start breeding before too long? Lionel Kelleway travels to the RSPB's Ham Wall nature reserve in Somerset in an attempt to see all five species, including the bittern, a bird he has never seen in the wild in the UK.