Little tern and ruff

This video from Australia says about itself:

The Little Tern is one of the most endangered birds in NSW with only a couple of thousand left in the wild. Over the past decade the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has engineered an intensive recovery program aimed at reversing the decline in their number. It’s been a successful campaign and one involving a huge effort by the community.

Today, to the nature reserves of the east side of Texel, close to the Wadden sea dike.

First, to Minkewaal. Here is an artificial nesting wall for sand martins. Today, about twenty nesting couples are busy flying in and out of the nest holes.

Avocets.

On the Wadden sea dike, a male eider duck resting close to a turnstone.

Oystercatchers. Common terns flying past.

Then, Zandkes nature reserve. Two bar-tailed godwits, one in summer plumage, one in winter plumage.

A male shoveler. Grey lag geese. A male teal. A kestrel flying.

A bit further south: little terns. A male brings a fish to its mate.

A ringed plover.

South of the Zandkes, hundreds of brent geese on a meadow.

Two barnacle geese swimming.

At the Ottersaat reserve not only common terns, but also Arctic terns.

Many avocets. Brent geese.

Then, to the hide of Dijkmanshuizen reserve.

Hundreds of brent geese and about ten barnacle geese.

Avocets. Male and female ruff.

A bit south of the hide: scores of bar-tailed godwits on meadows.

Two spoonbills flying at a marsh just east of Oudeschild village.

Revival for little tern colony at Crimdon Denemouth: here.