A Knot Has Found Its Favorite Prey (IMAGE)

NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

A Knot Has Found Its Favorite Prey

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Only long-billed red knots are able to access the deeply burrowed bivalves at their tropical wintering grounds. Shorter-billed birds are forced to make a living of shallowly burrowed seagrass rhizomes

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© Jan van de Kam

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