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Flat land along a river, lying few feet above normal high water, often consisting of alluvial deposits and naturally fertile.
noun
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A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a river bed exposed at low tide.
Examples of mudflats in a Sentence
In winter dunlin, ringed and gray plover, redshank, knot and bar-tailed godwit all feed on the mudflats at low tide.
Mudflats, sheltered bays and deep firths harbor good populations of migrant and breeding waders and wildfowl.
Landscape Key Characteristics Farmed ridges enclosing a lough with tidal mudflats.
The artificial recharge of mudflats is a particularly attractive option for parts of the upper harbor.
Here we find a variety of habitats including salt marsh, Acadian and red spruce forest and tidal mudflats.
Habitats include estuaries, large shallow inlets and bays, subtidal sandbanks, saltmarshes, intertidal mudflats and sand flats.
Saltmarsh and mudflats at Pembroke River were also affected by heavy fuel oil and sheens of crude oil.
The outlet channel became a lagoon controlled by sluices and the mudflats were reclaimed as pasture.
Saltmarsh represents a transition from sand and mudflats to truly terrestrial vegetation.
The mudflats are crammed with tasty microscopic worms and marine worms, lots of lovely food to over 20,000 birds.
Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide.
Mudflats have an abundance of invertebrates such as ragworm and mud snails and the channels contain fish such as bass, flounders and gobies.