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African Black Oystercatcher by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
A history of the birds of Europe :.
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Plate 427 of John Audubon’s The Birds of America, the White-legged Oyster Catcher and the Slender-billed Oyster Catcher. (This bird’s common name, oystercatcher, hasn’t changed since Audubon’s time, and does beg the question- How hard can it be to catch an oyster when you’ve got wing? They aren’t exactly going to run away, are they?)
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Posted on May 13, 2012 via The Birds of America Blog with 30 notes
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Juvenile stone plover, avocet, pied oystercatcher, and lotus bird
These birds are all waders, which largely live in wetland or coastal environments. The lotus bird is able to stride atop the lilypads and other wetland flora, thanks to its long toes, which distribute its weight over a large area. The other waders walk along the water bottom for the most part, and rarely venture beyond still shallows.
A Manual of the Birds of Australia. Gregory M. Mathews, 1921.
