Shortly after dawn, as the tide extended slowly across the margins of the coastal flats, the narrow creeks and channels began to fill with water.
Huge flocks, including most of British breeding population, moult in late summer on coastal flats at mouth of R Elbe.
Most of the mudflats are inundated each high tide; spring tides or cyclones may also flood adjoining coastal flats.
This species is common in coastal scrub, on coastal sandy flats, and along the edges of forests.
By 1860, farms and settlements were spreading out along the coastal flats and dunes, while in the hinterlands, prospectors panned for gold.
The lower member is regarded to have been deposited by ancient river systems and later, in coastal tidal flats.
Almost any open space including coastal flats, deserts, fields, roadsides, vacant lots, and waste areas.
It occurs mostly on sheltered, well-watered cliff faces and damp coastal flats where there is local protection from wind and spray.
On ice-scoured uplands and coastal flats there may be more ponds and lakes than dry land.
(A sabkha is a wide area of coastal flats bordering the sea, the name coming from certain coastal areas of Arabia).
