- Black Oystercatchers eating Limpets shows how they get limpets off rocks.
- This is one of the most common foods of these oystercatchers.
- Their flat, side to side, bill is perfect for extracting the limpets.
- For more information about Black Oystercatchers look at Andres, Brad A. and Gary A. Falxa. 1995. Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/155
- When I have watched oystercatchers bringing food to their young limpets is the most common.
Black Oystercatchers eating Limpets
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