Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the eagles,” he said ... In revitalized waters, aquatic vegetation returned. Fish and fish-eating mammals returned. Ospreys ...
While there are other animals in Elkhorn Slough that eat green crabs, such as sharks, rays, wading birds and larger crabs, green crabs only decreased when the otter population increased.
The scene in the remake where Knock bites off a bird's head comes from the book, in which Dracula's servant Renfield eats birds, and Orlok killing the Hardings' children calls to mind the vampire ...