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A Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) scans the beach for food amongst the kelp which has dried up in the sun.
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A male Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) swims along the line of the beach.
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And a female Eider cleaning and preeing her feathers.
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Groups of Eider chicks are being taken care of by multiple females.
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These Eider ducks were resting on the beach, but were disturbed by a walker.
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Three Sandwich Terns (Sterna sandvicensis) in the tide.
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The Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula) is common on the beaches of Düne. This was a ringed individual (not shown on this photographs).
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A Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) from the colony which the gulls have established next to Düne's small runway.
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A Lesser Black-backed Gull stretches its muscles.
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A Lesser Black-backed Gull sitting on its nest.
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A Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) on Helgoland's red cliffs.
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Two Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) busy with their ceremony to define territora. Their beaks are pointed downwards.
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A Sanderling (Calidris alba) briefly lands right in front of my lens.
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