Godwit elected 'National Bird of the Netherlands'
18 November 2015
The Godwit has been elected 'National Bird of the Netherlands' by the Dutch public. In an interview in Friesland, Theunis Piersma explains that our National Bird needs an ecologically sound Dutch meadow habitat.
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