Blackbird Gorging on Horseshoe Crab Eggs DSC_7219DyACC
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Horseshoe Crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are a keystone species, supporting an entire ecosystem. A blackbird is eating Horseshoe Crab Eggs as fast as it can. This lone specimen, probably a male Boat-tailed Grackle (quiscalus major) was likely nesting in the nearby marsh.
This image was accepted into the Plymouth Center for the Arts & the Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance's exhibition: "Horseshoe Crab: Against All Odds", June 2024.
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- Janet MacCausland
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- Contained in galleries
- Plymouth Center for the Arts - "Change the Tide", Birds: Songbirds & other land birds_Inopinaves part 1, DELMARVA_ Delaware-Maryland-Virginia, Arthropod - Aquatic
