{"id":126785,"date":"2023-01-05T04:59:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=126785"},"modified":"2023-01-05T09:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T16:05:50","slug":"pied-billed-grebe-with-a-crayfish-or-whatever-you-wanna-call-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/05\/pied-billed-grebe-with-a-crayfish-or-whatever-you-wanna-call-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Pied-billed Grebe With A Crayfish (or whatever you wanna call it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crayfish by any other name would <span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">pinch as hard (apologies to The Bard of Avon).<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"126786\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/05\/pied-billed-grebe-with-a-crayfish-or-whatever-you-wanna-call-it\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS R5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1672860925","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.0002","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"pied-billed grebe 5092 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126786 size-full\" title=\"pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5092-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon I watched as this Pied-billed Grebe repeatedly dived for prey before eventually coming up with a fairly small crayfish, which it almost immediately carried to the protection of some nearby reeds before tearing off and discarding its pincers and swallowing the rest.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"126791\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/05\/pied-billed-grebe-with-a-crayfish-or-whatever-you-wanna-call-it\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS R5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1672860928","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.00025","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"pied-billed grebe 5118 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pied-billed-grebe-5118-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All the excitement had attracted the attention of a Mallard drake who approached to investigate and I believe the grebe was fearful that the Mallard would attempt to steal its prize. But as soon as the duck got this close he lost all interest.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Every time I post a photo that includes a crayfish I struggle with what to call it. There’s a bewilderingly large number of regional common names for crayfish, including but not limited to crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs, ditchbugs, swampbugs, yabbys, water dogs and many others. In one ambitious study of American linguistics, the Dictionary of American English (DARE) identified more than 40 regionally used common names for crayfish. There are over 330 species of crayfish just in North America (more than 600 in the world), which may have contributed to the confusingly large number of common names for the distinctively clawed and tasty crustacean.<\/p>\n<p>There’s a reason I’ve always called them crayfish but it isn’t a good one. As a biology\/zoology teacher all the textbooks and lab manuals I used over the years (in college and in my own classrooms and labs) referred to them as crayfish so that’s the term I’ve always used. But those same textbooks and manuals also made a point of calling “starfish” sea stars because starfish aren’t fish. Well, crayfish aren’t fish either so why do they use that term? Seems to me that a little consistency should be in order, especially in the scientific community.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>So, what do you call crayfish? I’d be interested in knowing which common names predominate amongst my readers and I’m thinking some of you would be too. It might also be interesting to know which region (or culture or cuisine) of North America or the world might have influenced your choice of name.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my readers are from Australia and New Zealand where crayfish are also commonly found so I’m particularly interested to know what names might have cropped up in that region of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crayfish by any other name would pinch as hard. 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