BBC Wildlife Magazine

MIKE DILGER’S WILDLIFE WATCHING

ccupying that space where land, sea and sky seem to merge, intertidal mudflats must surely be one of the most ‘natural’ of all the many highly modified habitats now enountered in modern-day Britain. Entirely framed at its lower reaches by the sea, the area of mudflat closest to land – and therefore furthest away from the daily scouring effects of the tide –

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