Shorebirds defy gravity to get a drop to eat.

The article elaborates on the research undertaken by Margaret Rubega and colleagues to explore shorebirds' unusual way of eating in Connecticut. They discovered that these birds have an unique way of eating wherein they use gravity-defying tricks to fill their stomachs with corepods, small crustaceans. They observed that these birds swim in circles to create a vortex that sweeps the copepods to the surface, then scissors their beaks open and shut to draw in food-filled beads of water.