MudHouse 2022-0902

These photographs reveal aspects of the life of birds few casual observers will ever see.

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Sanderling flees with sandcrab

Too big to swallow immediately, but too valuable energetically because of all the lipids it contains, this sandcrab is flown away by its Sanderling captor so that it can be picked apart and eaten without disturbance.

Sanderling Emerita sandcrab