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A survey of habitats at 17 reedbed sites in the UK which currently hold or have recently held breeding bitterns Botaurus stellaris has shown significant differences between sites with decreasing and sites with increasing numbers of birds over the period 1979 to 1994. Those sites where bitterns have declined had significantly higher values for variables describing scrub encroachment and the presence...