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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Donna Ferguson

‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish

A grey lying on sand with her flipper resting on a pup with streaks of blood on its white fur
A grey seal with her pup, minutes after it was born at Winterton, Norfolk. The colony may have been helped by windfarms off the east coast acting as artificial reefs and boosting food supplies. Photograph: Joshua Bright/The Guardian

It is a cold winter’s day to be lying on a beach, but the seal pup suckling from its mother doesn’t mind. A few metres away, a pregnant seal is burrowing into the sand, trying to get comfortable, while a third seal, which has just given birth, is touching noses with her newborn pup.

The shoreline – a mass of seals and their white pups – is one of Britain’s greatest wildlife success stories: a grey seal colony on the east Norfolk coast.

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