This is a water rail video.
Wardens Jasper Zoeter and Tim van Nus report from Rottumerplaat island in the Netherlands. This spring, there is a water rail nest with at least three chicks.
On 22 May, they found a Kentish plover nest with three eggs. A species which for years had only nested rarely on the island.
Not a good Arctic tern nesting season: only three couples.
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What a lovely bird!
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Yes, indeed. Like with many other rail species, one often hears them without seeing them, as they tend to hide in reed beds.
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