Games & Activities

Pairs Games - what do I eat?

Curlew

The long curving beak of the Curlew helps it to find food such as lugworms living beneath the mud. Curlew also like shrimps and shellfish.

Oystercatcher

Oystercatchers don’t eat oysters, but they do like the cockles that live in the mud.

Shelduck

Shelduck are good a shovelling up the tiny Hydrobia shells. They like to eat invertebrates, small shellfish and aquatic snails


Cows

If beef cows are kept on the coastal grazing marshes of Chichester, it helps to protect the habitat and keeps it the right condition for a variety of rare birds and mammals such as lapwings and water voles. The resulting high quality beef is sold direct to the public, through a scheme call Three Harbours Beef


Periwinkle

Periwinkles like to graze on vegetation like seaweed and dead plants. They eat the seaweed and anything else living on it.

Water vole

Water voles nibble the plants that grow near the water’s edge like willow leaves, sedges and grasses.

Stickleback

Sticklebacks eat smaller creatures that live in the water, like Mayfly larvae, worms, freshwater shrimps and small fish.

Seal

Seal catch fish in the harbour such as mackerel. They can dive down to catch fish like flounders that live on the bottom of the sea. They take a wide variety of prey including sandeels, whitefish, octopus and squid


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