Diet Overlap

Tadorna tadorna (Common Shelduck)
Calidris pusilla (Semipalmated Sandpiper)

Common Diet

Abra marshalli (Baltic macoma)
Corophium volutator (mud shrimp)

Common Habitat

Minsmere to Walberswick Heaths and Marshes
North Norfolk Coast

Attributes / relations provided by
1Predation of the shelduck Tadorna tadorna on the mud snail Hydrobia ulvae, N. R. Anders, T. Churchyard, J. G. Hiddink, Aquat Ecol 2009, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1193-1199
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.
3Energy flow of a boreal intertidal ecosystem, the Sylt-Rømø Bight, Dan Baird, Harald Asmus, Ragnhild Asmus, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 279: 45–61, 2004
4"Crawling behaviour of the amphipod Corophium volutator and foraging by Semipalmated Sandpipers, Calidris pusilla", J. Sherman Boates, Peter C. Smith, Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1989, 67(2): 457-462