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Do Robins eat snails?

  • 30-12-2008 8:49pm
    #1
    Corina Duyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭


    I found about 30 empty garden snail shells in a cravice in an old stone wall, at least a metre from the ground. I wonder what bird or other animal ate the snails, or is there another explanation for the empty shells?


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  • #2
    Judgement Day
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    Insects and worms are the predominant diet of Robins. The Song Thrush is a more likely culprit in this case. Are the shells smashed? Sometimes thrushes seem to have a favourite rock for cracking snail shells on, perhaps the crevice on your wall..:)


  • #3
    Corina Duyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Corina Duyn


    Thanks for the reply, I am new to this way of communication

    The shells are pretty smashed all right, but the crevice is high up and too small for a song trush to get into. I have read that snails hibernate for the winter and the location would be a good one, it looks like a masacre went on there. There are lots of broken shells on the ground as well.
    I have witnessed a trush in action with a snail, not a prety sight! :)


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