Virginia rail
The Virginia rail probe with its bill in mud or shallow water, also picking up food by sight. It mainly eat insects and other aquatic invertebrates, like beetles, flies, dragonflies, crayfish, snails and earthworms. It can also eat aquatic animals like frogs, fish and some small snakes, as well as seeds. Animal preys constitute the biggest part of this bird's diet, but vegetation contributes to its diet in the fall and winter.
Marsh rice rat
Animals that are important to the marsh rice rat's diet include insects, fiddler crabs, and snails, but the species is known to eat many other animals, including fish, clams, and juvenile "Graptemys" and "Chrysemys" turtles. They scavenge on carcasses of muskrats, deermice, and sparrows, and may be the most important predator on eggs and young of the marsh wren. Rice rats also eat eggs and young of the seaside sparrow ("Ammodramus maritimus") and are aggressive towards the sparrow, apparently leading it to avoid nesting in "Juncus" in a seaside salt marsh in Florida. On islands in North Carolina, rice rats consume eggs of Forster's tern ("Sterna forsteri"). They have been observed preying on alligator eggs in Georgia.