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Story summary
- Poole harbour in the United Kingdom hosts thousands of winter-bound migratory birds in October.
- The harbour lies on the East Atlantic Flyway, one of the world’s largest natural harbours.
- Swallows departed for southern Africa while meadow pipits headed to Europe and north Africa.
- Teals and avocets arrived in large numbers.
- Curlew sandpipers, curlews, oystercatchers, black-headed gulls and Icelandic black-tailed godwits fed on mudflats exposed at low tide.
