(1) With the mussel stuck in the open position, the oystercatcher can pull out the contents with the tip of its chisel-like bill.(2) The curlew and oystercatcher are back and the great spotted woodpeckers have chosen the oldest telegraph poles in the village for best quality drumming sounds.(3) The ‘conservationist’ fields covered practices such as late mowing of grass to allow the hatching of birds like the godwit and oystercatcher , leaving a perimeter strip untouched and using less fertiliser and weedkillers.(4) Below Greyabbey, I watched the oystercatchers breaking cockle shells on the rocks.(5) Where once you could stand and hear the sound of curlews and oystercatchers , all you can hear now is the roar of engines.(6) Similarly, oystercatchers forced to forage for shorter periods of time increased food intake to a level that maintained the same mean consumption over a longer period.(7) The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots, eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron.(8) Although the breeding success remained low, number of breeding pairs increased markedly, suggesting that the absence of gulls made the nesting area more attractive for oystercatchers .(9) Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers , godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.(10) What a difference it is to wake up to the sound of new lambs calling their mothers, seals barking in the bay, and oystercatchers and curlews singing their morning chorus, with a backing track of the sea pounding the cliffs and the beaches.(11) Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers , stilts, avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.(12) Researchers say that odd behavior by oystercatchers in Britain in the late 1990s indicated the collapse of shellfish beds in the Wash, off England's east coast.(13) Similar behavioral flexibility has been observed in oystercatchers in response to experimental variation in tide length.(14) The swelling population of hedgehogs on the Scottish islands of North and South Uist and Benbecula has been devouring birds' eggs and chicks, leading to a big decline in the population of rare waders - like oystercatchers and redshanks.(15) Scottish Natural Heritage says the creatures prey on eggs and are jeopardising the populations of birds such as lapwings and oystercatchers .(16) Field walls dip below the surface, old railway sleepers rot in the grass, lapwings and more oystercatchers paddled in the shallows with their young.
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