USGS Multimedia Gallery: Disappearing Shorebird Habitat

Title: Disappearing Shorebird Habitat

Description:

Shorebirds feeding on a diked-off area of former intertidal mudflats at a reclamation project in Bohai Bay, Yellow Sea, China. The substrate the birds are feeding on is mud and sand that has been pumped into the impoundment from beyond the levee (dredge in background). Ironically, shorebirds are feeding on the same sediments that they likely fed on when the material was seaward of the dikes. The opportunity, however, is fleeting since the area behind the dikes is no longer tidal and it will eventually dry out, killing everything (small clams and worms) within.

Location: China

Date Taken: May 2011

Photographer: Robert Gill , USGS

Usage: This image is public domain/of free use unless otherwise stated. Please refer to the USGS Copyright section for how to credit the photo.

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Dimensions: 1229 x 820

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