Oystercatcher Chicks (IMAGE)

Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)

Oystercatcher Chicks

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Are they safe? Normally they are. But with more and more extreme weather and climatic events, that's not so sure. Only a few feet away the Wadden sea is lurking, and floods have become twice as frequent during the last 20 years.

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Martijn van de Pol/NIOO-KNAW

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