Dynamic measurements of black oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) predation on mussels (Mytilus californianus)
March 05, 2019
Tags: accelerometer, mussel, oystercatcher
A black oystercatcher foraging in central California
Myself and co-author Wes Dowd have a new paper out in the journal Invertebrate Biology detailing a set of observations we made of black oystercatchers attacking a set of mussels that were part of an experiment we were running. The mussels in our experiment were wearing a set of sensors, including an internal temperature sensor, a valve gape sensor (aka a ‘valvometer’), and a 3-axis accelerometer and magnetometer sensor. These mussels were part of a bed of live mussels (image below) … Continue Reading