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Fiddler Crabs Emerging From Burrows on Muddy Ground (Guerrero Negro, 2022)

7s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2022
No people visible. No identifiable people are visible in this clip. Commercial clearance still depends on the final use and any property shown.

About this clip

Fiddler crabs move across a muddy surface. Some emerge from small burrows in the ground. The crabs crawl and interact with their environment.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentaries, coastal ecology sequences, travel edits, agency mood reels, and social cuts needing fiddler crabs on a Guerrero Negro mudflat.
Edit role
The seven-second shot works as a close cutaway, natural texture beat, or insert between wider shore and tidal-flat scenes.
Visual details
Small fiddler crabs move over wet brown-gray mud with scattered shell fragments, small burrow holes, shallow water sheen, and a few green grass blades, with no visible people.
Shot mechanics
Ground-level close composition keeps the muddy surface filling the frame, with crabs in the foreground and midground and no horizon or built environment visible.

Tags

fiddler crabscrabsmuddy groundburrowsholesmovingemergingcrawlingnaturalcalmbrowngrayshoretidal flatcrabmudflatshallow watersmall shell

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
7s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
83 MB
Location
Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2022
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

A fiddler crab stands on wet brown-gray mud with scattered shell pieces in Guerrero Negro, Mexico, with no visible people.
This opening frame shows a close view of a fiddler crab on the muddy tidal surface. (0:00)
A fiddler crab crawls across damp mud near a pale shell fragment in Guerrero Negro, Mexico, with no visible people.
The frame gives editors a clean close cutaway of the crab moving over textured mud. (0:01)
A fiddler crab appears on muddy ground beside thin green grass blades and a dark plant stem in Guerrero Negro, Mexico, with no visible people.
This moment adds plant detail beside the crab and keeps the setting tightly focused on the mudflat surface. (0:02)
Fiddler crab near burrow and grass on mud

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