Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima adult winter plumage feeding on Razorshell Ensis sp. after 'wreck' shellfish washed up on

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Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) adult, winter plumage, feeding on Razorshell (Ensis sp.) after 'wreck' of shellfish washed up on beach, Eccles-on-sea, Norfolk, England, March

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