| It is generally a wader of the rocky shore and uses its short pick-axe bill to lever up small stones so as to feed upon sandhoppers, small crabs and molluscs that lie beneath. |
| Zonal recovery is a prompt escape towards the sea performed by sandhoppers under stressful environmental conditions. |
| Dr Richard Thompson, of the University of Plymouth, has studied how plastic degrades in the water and how tiny marine organisms such as barnacles and sandhoppers respond. |
| People standing near the edge of this angular structure look as small as sandhoppers from where we are. |
