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Professionals may use "hides" but there are also cameras with different optics and higher speed shutters. They also tend to understand a lot better the angles to photograph at.
There's an article talking about the famous kingfisher photo and the dude was out there taking shots for a few days. For documentaries like BBCs "Planet Earth" they had people in various locations sometimes for weeks-months.