St Kilda Spoonbill
August 26, 2010 by BayKeeper
Filed under Featured, Wild Things
Royal Spoonbills (Platalea regia) are big birds that eat small prey! So they have to work hard for a living. They wade in shallow water, systematically sweeping their open bill from side to side just below the surface. When they find a mollusc, small fish, or water bug, the bill snaps shut. With a quick [...]
whales just wanna have fun!
July 25, 2010 by BayKeeper
Filed under Featured, Wild Things
If you had to choose a magic marine moment, it would be hard to beat the spectacular breach of a Humpback whale. They just love to leap, roll in mid air, and land on their back. Why do they do it? Perhaps just cos they can! Baykeeper is truly envious of Ron, Tania, Duke and [...]
North Pacific Seastar population decline?
July 25, 2010 by BayKeeper
Filed under Featured, Wild Things
The beautiful, but destructive North Pacific Seastar (Asterias amurensis) first arrived in Port Phillip Bay in the 1990s in ship ballast water. As they eat practically anything live or dead that they can climb onto, they thrived in the local conditions where they have few natural predators. In less than 10 years they became the [...]
