many birds are brown, green or grey. these colours make a bird harder to be seen: they camouflage the bird. brown is the most common colour. brown birds include: sparrows, emus, thrushes, larks, eagles and falcons and the female birds of many species such as: wrens, ducks, blackbirds and peafowls. when a brown bird is in long grass or among tree trunks or rocks, it is "camouflaged". birds that live in long grass often have brown feathers streaked with black which looks like shadows. a bittern is almost invisible in long reeds because its camouflage is helped by its posture (beak and head pointed upwards). other birds, including starlings and mynas, are quite dark in colour, but are flecked with little spots that look like raindrops on leaves. bird may also camouflage their nests.