They mainly eat insects, small crustaceans and mollusks.
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Sandcrabs and other creatures in the sand.
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Description of birds found in Washington state ... Stilt Sandpipers eat a wide variety of insects and insect larvae during the breeding season. At other times of the year, they eat seeds, leaves, and roots of aquatic plants, marine worms, and other aquatic invertebrates...
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However, when the vast flocks of hungry sandpipers arrive they eat immense numbers of the amphipods, greatly reducing their numbers, and allowing the rapidly growing algae to flourish. Thus more muccopolysaccharide is produced and the sediments become stickier and more stable.
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In short, sandpipers will eat pretty much anything they can catch! When they're wading along the shore, they will encounter and eat such things as insects, worms, amphipods (little shrimp-like crustaceans, also known as "skuds"), isopods (also crustaceans), small molluscs, gastropods (snails), and even small fish.
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Curlew Sandpipers eat mainly worms, supplemented with bivales, gastropods, crustacea and sometimes seeds. When breeding, they eat mainly insects, especially flies and beetles. Curlew Sandpipers forage on wet, soft mud by pecking and probing in an incessant "stitching" motion.
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www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Calidris_ferruginea.htm
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Marsh Sandpipers are medium-sized waders with long needle-like bills and very long greenish legs. They are often mistaken for Greenshanks. Marsh Sandpipers eat mainly worms, insect larvae and bivalve.
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www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Tringa_stagnatilis.htm
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An international team has discovered why half the world's western sandpipers touch down on a specific ... The discovery is big news for birders, who have long assumed sandpipers eat bugs and worms. "Snot feeding," as Environment Canada biologist Bob Elner describes it, adds a whole new dimension to avian life.
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www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=13c2933a...
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An international team has discovered why half the world's western sandpipers touch down on a very specific ... The discovery is big news for birders, who have long assumed sandpipers eat bugs and worms. "Snot feeding," as Environment Canada biologist Bob Elner describes it, adds a whole new dimension to avian life.
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www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id...
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