Feeding Turnstones are in continual movement since they appear to detect food items visually; but foraging Purple Sandpipers seem to depend more on tactile contact with prey and they are more specialist feeders. These differences are reflected in the activity patterns and substrate types usedfor feeding by the two species.
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