This video is about shelduck courtship and mating behaviour.
Yesterday, 27 July 2015, Dutch regional broadcaster Omroep Zeeland referred to a ‘tsunami’.
Fortunately, they did not mean a real natural disaster, but, figuratively speaking, many ducks.
About 35,000 shelducks have gathered at the Hooge Platen sandbank in the Westerschelde river in Zeeland province.
This is the biggest number of this species there ever.
The birds have gathered there for their moulting season, when they can’t fly.
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