Oyster Catcher
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for members of the family Haematopodidae, ploverlike shorebirds, cosmopolitan in distribution.
The American species are the black, European, and frazer's oyster catchers.
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Australian Pied Oyster Catcher, Australian Pied Oystercatcher, Northern Pied Oyster Catcher, North-Western Pied Oyster Catcher
Bird Family :
Haematopodini - Oystercatchers ...
Pied Oyster Catcher
Pied Oyster Catcher
Pie-dish Beetle
Pigfish, Bodianus unimaculatus (Gunther, 1862)
Pilbara, WA
Pilbara, WA
Pill millipede specimen
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Pin-cushion Urchin
Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris ...
Life Cycle The female black oyster catcher lays two to three eggs among pebbles in a shallow rocky depression or in a hollow on the beach above the high tide line. The nest is built by both the male and the female.
Torea, the South Island pied oyster catcher, SIPOs as we affectionately call them, are also there in numbers but scattered about.
Shorebird is a catchall term for any member of a number of families
of an order of birds, including the sandpipers, plovers, oyster catchers,
and the avocets and stilts.
 See also: Oyster, Mussel, Sandpiper, Plover, Avocet
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