Rob Cadd Photography | Purple sandpiper : probe : RSPB Titchwell Marsh @robcaddphotography | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Slow-motion footage of a purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima), probing the sand for food at RSPB Titchwell Marsh nature reserve, Norfolk, UK.
The video shows a sand hopper (small sand-dwelling crustacean, forming a large part of the diet of this shorebird) making a bid for escape after being extracted from the sand, before eventually being recaptured and devoured by the sandpiper.
Slow-motion footage of a purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima), probing the sand for food at RSPB Titchwell Marsh nature reserve, Norfolk, UK.
The video shows a sand hopper (small sand-dwelling crustacean, forming a large part of the diet of this shorebird) making a bid for escape after being extracted from the sand, before eventually being recaptured and devoured by the sandpiper.
