Diet Overlap

Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star)
Cygnus cygnus (Whooper Swan)

Common Diet

Mytilus edulis (Blue mussel)

Common Habitat

Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast
Moray Firth
North Norfolk Coast

Attributes / relations provided by
1A seventeen-year study of the rose star Crossaster papposus population in a coastal bay in southeast Alaska, H. R. Carlson and C. A. Pfister, Marine Biology (1999) 133: 223-230
2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.