Estuaries are habitat complexes that comprise an interdependent mosaic of marine, coastal and halophytic habitats. From land, they appear as small, featureless sandbanks and yet are one of our most productive and important ecosystems on Earth.

A bird’s eye view of the Dee Estuary, capturing the abstract and alien-looking patterns left in the sand at low tide. Small pools of water that sparkle in the sunlight, linked together by a network of tiny channels draining the mudflats.

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CREDITS:
JNCC
British Trust for Ornithology.
Countryside Council for Wales.
Dee Estuary Strategy.
Defence Estates.
English Nature.
Environment Agency.
Flintshire Ranger Service.
Mersey Estuary Conservation Group.
North Wales and N West Sea Fisheries Committee.
Wirral Borough Council Ranger Service.