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A wormy lunch – elegant Pied Oystercatchers catching, washing and then eating polychaete worms.

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Australian Pied Oystercatchers (Haematopus longirostris ) are large, elegant wading birds that are found around the coastline of Australia. They eat burrowing worms, snails, bivalves and other prey. This pair of Pied Oystercatchers were hunting on the Peel Inlet tidal flat on a rising tide, hunting two species of burrowing polychaete (bristle) worms, then washing the sand off them before swallowing their prey. The name ‘polychaete’ is derived from the Greek meaning ‘having much hair’.

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