Comments on: The Oystercatcher and the Clam https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/ Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:14:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520381 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:14:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520381 Adrian, can you put it back still?

]]> By: Adrian Evans https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520380 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:55:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520380 We were walking along the beach and my twin daughters found a bird egg. Unable to tell me exactly where so that we could return it we were forced to take it home. They wanted to ‘hatch’ it so to ‘amuse’ them I placed it under a light in the kitchen in a shoe box. I did not think anything would come of it and everyday they looked at the egg hodling it listening to it. Today we actually heard a tweet inside the egg. What do we do now?! What shall we feed it? From a search on the net I found it to be an oystercatcher egg.

]]> By: Arthur E. Lyons https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520379 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:39:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520379 European Oystercatchers are frequently seen in small flocks foraging plowed fields far from the water in Holland and Belgium, presumably eating grubs, worms and insects.

]]> By: Larry Jordan https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520378 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:26:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520378 Very interesting and educational post Greg. The fact that the beak development is a key ingredient in the equation makes a lot of sense. At what age does that beak development occur?

]]> By: craig Nash https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520377 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:57:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520377 This maybe of interest
http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob4500.htm

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520376 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:18:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520376 Yeah, I always wondered that.

]]> By: Mike https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520375 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:00:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520375 Fascinating, Greg. I’m waiting for the follow-up on how got Mercenaria mercenaria its name. With mercenaries that skilled and deadly, I could rule the world.

]]> By: snooty pedant https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520374 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:16:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520374 Common error repeated: “it’s” = “it is”, not possessive pronoun “its”.

Having said that: fascinating example of observational learning. Birds everywhere seem to be much more intelligent than “everyone” believed a few (pre-Alex”) decades ago.

]]> By: Ed Yong https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520373 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:42:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520373 Surely this makes the clam an oystercatchercatcher.

If it were an oyster, it’d be an oystercatchercatcheroyster.

]]> By: Richard Simons https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520372 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:04:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/10/the-oystercatcher-and-the-clam/#comment-520372 Thanks, Darren. They are clearly more flexible than I thought.

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