Sanderling Pause From Foraging Wood Print

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"Sanderling Pause From Foraging" wildlife photograph by Dawn Currie. A solitary Sanderling looks up at the photographer as he pauses from his seemingly never-ending hunt for food along the beach. Photographed at Sebastian Inlet State Park.

Sanderlings (Calidris alba) feed by running down the beach after a receding wave to pick up stranded invertebrates or probe for prey hidden in the wet sand. Its diet includes small crabs, amphipods and other small crustaceans, polychaete worms, mollusks, and horseshoe crab eggs. Sanderlings may also skim food from shallow pools while running, pick up moving prey on the ground, or—during the summertime—snap at flying insects. They eat crane flies, midges, mosquitoes, beetles, butterflies, and moths. When no animal prey is available, Sanderlings eat plant material, including saxifrage buds and shoots, roots, grass seeds, algae, and mosses.

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