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Western sandpiper and its food items

By Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)
Western sandpiper, with food items--worms, crustaceans, tiny bivalves, green slime--in circles surrounding the sandpiper image
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Detailed Description

A western sandpiper (Calidris mauri) with some of the food items available in San Francisco Bay, CA, USA. Food items pictured include amphipods and copepods (small crustceans), bivalves, oligochaete worms, and biofilm.

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Public Domain.