Willet with prey
is a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae. It is a relatively large and robust sandpiper and is the largest of the species called "shanks". Willets are flexible in their feeding habits and hunt by walking steadily and pecking prey from the substrate, although they also probe into the mud or silt with their sensitive bill and may actively stalk larger prey in shallow water. A favored prey on the coasts is small fiddler crabs as well as mole crabs, worms, clams and other invertebrates.
Hippoids (mole crabs) are adapted to burrowing into sandy beaches, a habit they share with raninid crabs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippoidea
Tringa semipalmata with mole crab. North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. USA
Willet with prey
is a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae. It is a relatively large and robust sandpiper and is the largest of the species called "shanks". Willets are flexible in their feeding habits and hunt by walking steadily and pecking prey from the substrate, although they also probe into the mud or silt with their sensitive bill and may actively stalk larger prey in shallow water. A favored prey on the coasts is small fiddler crabs as well as mole crabs, worms, clams and other invertebrates.
Hippoids (mole crabs) are adapted to burrowing into sandy beaches, a habit they share with raninid crabs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippoidea
Tringa semipalmata with mole crab. North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. USA