I watched this oystercatcher carefully positioning a mussel into the sand to make it easier to crack. It took quite a few attempts, but the efforts paid off.
I've recently moved to an area where I regularly see Oyster Catchers in the UK. Never knew about them until a month a go when I first saw one. I saw a similar bird in shape but it was brown. Lovely birds.
I'm making a narrated movie about Oystercatchers for my RU-vid channel. Or at least, I will if I can borrow enough footage of them foraging. My husband and I went to the Gulf Coast last winter, and I watched one for many hours, filming whenever he did anything besides doze. That was one not-very-hungry Oystercatcher! I have only one clip of him foraging and catching something--not enough for my purposes. Would you be interested in giving me permission to use parts of this footage? I've read that the Oystercatcher finds a bivalve that's a bit open and pokes his bill into it to sever the muscle that holds the shell closed. Your footage shows him doing that. He started by hammering the mussel, but then he poked his bill in. I'd be delighted to be able to use your steady, close, well-lit clip. I would credit you, of course, both in the movie itself and in the description below. Here's a link to my channel in case you'd like to check out the quality of my work. @UC-Q-eORu_VVtkbmOgaSpH7A
Hi Jo, pleased you liked the video and you are welcome to use my footage for your narrated movie. My videos are released under Creative Commons so you only need to credit me, thank you for letting me know
@@aBugBlog My movie about the Oystercatcher is up (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mEkc7NhV-io.html). I loved being able to use footage that shows him wedging his beak into the mussel to sever the muscle holding the shell together.
@@muhammaddanishb.noraffendi2830 you're welcome. They're a beautiful bird. I used to see near where I grew up in Essex on the Thames estuary, , but I moved away. The last time I saw them was in Scotland on the beautiful Isle of Mull. You can find out lots if you Google them or treat yourself to a book on birds
