{"id":22598,"date":"2015-04-06T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=22598"},"modified":"2018-11-21T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T18:04:23","slug":"case-of-the-cracked-cockles-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/case-of-the-cracked-cockles-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Of The Cracked Cockles &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lesser-black-backed-gull-with-cockle.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22599 size-medium\" title=\"lesser black-backed gull with cockle\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lesser-black-backed-gull-with-cockle-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"lesser black-backed gull with cockle\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lesser-black-backed-gull-with-cockle-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lesser-black-backed-gull-with-cockle.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever found one of these shells on Sanibel Island that you couldn&#8217;t identify? I&#8217;ve been asked to identify this shell with a thick &#8220;lip&#8221; and one long &#8220;wing&#8221; hundreds of times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cracked-cockles-by-birds.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22600 size-medium\" title=\"cracked cockles by birds\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cracked-cockles-by-birds-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cracked cockles by birds\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cracked-cockles-by-birds-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cracked-cockles-by-birds.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It happens to be a broken ATLANTIC GIANT COCKLE (most likely they are juvenile shells that are cracked).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Atlantic-Giant-Cockles.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12315 size-medium\" title=\"Atlantic Giant Cockles\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Atlantic-Giant-Cockles-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Atlantic Giant Cockles\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Atlantic-Giant-Cockles-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Atlantic-Giant-Cockles.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and most likely it was cracked by a bird like this LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lesser-black-backed-gull-on-Sanibel-Florida-beach.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22601 size-medium\" title=\"Lesser black-backed gull on Sanibel Florida beach\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lesser-black-backed-gull-on-Sanibel-Florida-beach-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lesser black-backed gull on Sanibel Florida beach\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lesser-black-backed-gull-on-Sanibel-Florida-beach-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lesser-black-backed-gull-on-Sanibel-Florida-beach.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wanna see how this bird can crack the case of the COCKLE shell? It&#8217;s fascinating! This is a VERY. SMART. BIRD.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kSRSf2v7DAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Join me on a Shelling Adventure! <a title=\"iLoveShelling Events\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/iloveshelling-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/iloveshelling-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21309 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pams-shelling-trips1-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"pam rambo shelling trips\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pams-shelling-trips1-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pams-shelling-trips1-1024x444.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pams-shelling-trips1.jpg 1900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found one of these shells on Sanibel Island that you couldn&#8217;t identify? I&#8217;ve been asked to identify this shell with a thick &#8220;lip&#8221; and one long &#8220;wing&#8221; hundreds of times. It happens to be a broken ATLANTIC GIANT COCKLE (most likely they are juvenile shells that are cracked). &#8230; and most likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[845,22,1953,2279,208,1954],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-giant","category-cockle","category-lesser-black-backed-gull","category-seashell-fun-facts","category-video","category-smart-bird-cracking-cockle-shells","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28709,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions\/28709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}