During the very cold spell this
winter, which started on Boxing Day 2008,
waders
in the Dutch Rhine-Meuse delta began to perish after ten days of
severe
frost with
the lowest recorded temperature of -22C in the SE of the
country. As expected
Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus were the first
waders to die.
On 11th
January a very hungry Oystercatcher was
found while eating a frozen member
of
it's own species.
Starved Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus eating from the same species
corpse
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18 Nov 2021
