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Heron, Great White: at the 12%%sup th/%  world conference of the 
"International Council for Bird Preservation" (Tokyo 1960) a 
national bird was selected for each country. Austria was assigned the 
great white heron, a rare bird in Austria. The colony of great white 
herons near  Lake Neusiedl is the most important one in Europe and the 
only colony to be found so far to the north-east. Burgenland is the 
only Austrian region where great white herons breed.


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