The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands; by 2020, a gull-billed tern chick had hatched there, after only one Dutch breeding case had been recorded since 1958
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Engineers in the Netherlands took fine mud choking a lifeless lake and used it to build five low islands and within a few years, rare birds started showing up. In the summer of 2020, one of them nested and hatched a chick: a gull-billed tern, a slim, pale, marsh-edge bird that had all but vanished from Dutch breeding records for more than sixty years. According to Natuurmonumenten, only one breeding case had been known in the country since 1958. The lone exception was a nest found near Den Helde
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