Diet Overlap

Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star)
Melanitta nigra (Black Scoter)

Common Diet

Mytilus edulis (Blue mussel)

Common Habitat

Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast
Moray Firth
North Norfolk Coast
St David`s / Ty Ddewi
The Wash and 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.