Subject: Re: The Thumping of the Shrew
Date: Jul 19 12:45:43 1995
From: Maureen Ellis - me2 at u.washington.edu


So, I guess what I saw on an east side Florida beach this past spring was
not so astonishing after all!!! Yes, ruddy turnstones crowding around,
begging from, and taking out of hand all sorts of goodies and general
type JUNKFOOD from fisherfolks and surfside picnic people.
Ain't the scramble competition side of Darwinian evolution grand?

Maureen E. Ellis
Dept Environmental Health
Toxicology Group, Box 354695
Univ of WA
Seattle, WA 98195
me2 at u.washington. edu
mellis at dehpost.sphcm.washington.edu

On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, Stuart MacKay wrote:

> There was a long running series of reports in British Birds about the
> "diverse" things that ruddy turnstones (Arenaria interpres ?) will eat. The
> list included macaroni & cheese, chocolate, dog food, seal carcases and even
> humans. The latter was reported when frost movement caused the grave of one
> poor mariner from one of the many ill-fated North-West Passage expeditions to
> divulge its contents - apparently pretty well preserved.
>
> Time for lunch ?
>
> Stuart
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