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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Sam Russell

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Thousands of grey seal pups counted at coastal breeding ground | Mind Blowing Facts

A young grey seal scratches against a post in the dunes at Horsey in Norfolk, as the pupping season draws to a close at one the UK’s most important sites for the mammals (Joe Giddens/PA) -

More than 3,200 grey seal pups were born along a section of the Norfolk coast this season – slightly fewer than last year and possibly due to them finding new breeding grounds elsewhere.

The Friends of Horsey Seals group, which monitors the colony along the five-mile stretch between Waxham and Winterton, counted 3,246 pups there this season.

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