Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds: The Story of a Food Web

By Victoria Crenson

Book Overview

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs crawl from the bottom of Delaware Bay to lay billions of pearly green eggs on the beaches. Their salty eggs provide a feast for scavenging coastal animals, but billions more are eaten by the flocks of shorebirds that stop to rest and feed each spring after flying north from their homes in South America. In recent years the horseshoe crab population has dwindled. In turn, the number of shorebirds that fly north each year has grown smaller. Illuminated with warm, detailed watercolors, Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds demonstrates the delicate relationship between these animals and is an excellent resource for ecology lessons, as well as a dramatic storybook for sharing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761455523
• ISBN13: 9780761455523
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Two Lions
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.4" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 3

Customer Reviews

Excellent Shore Book

An excellent text and pictorial book about horseshoe crabs and their place in the "circle of life." Hardly anyone ever thinks of these creatures, but they play a crucial part in the lives of migrating birds as well as humans. Beautifully done.