Birds of the World

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Genus: Haematopus (11 species)


Blackish Oystercatcher (Haematopus ater) Range: SA: coastal n Peru and se Argentina to Cape Horn and Falkland Is. Paracas National Park, Peru
Photograph by Sue Bishop Copyrighted, all rights reserved.


Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) Range: NA, MA: coastal e North Pacific from w Aleutian Is. to wc Baja California (nw Mexico) Vancouver, Canada
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Chatham Islands Oystercatcher (Haematopus chathamensis) Endangered Range: AU: Chatham Is. (e of South I., New Zealand)


South Island Oystercatcher (Haematopus finschi) Range: AU: inland South I. (New Zealand) Point Chevalier, New Zealand
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Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus fuliginosus) Range: AU: coastal Australia and Tasmania Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
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Magellanic Oystercatcher (Haematopus leucopodus) Range: SA: coastal and inland sc Chile and sc Argentina to Cape Horn and Falkland Is. Patagonia, Chile
Photograph by Brendan Ryan Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris) Range: AU: coastal far e Lesser Sundas, Tanimbar and Kai Is. (se Moluccas), coastal Australia and Tasmania Tasmania, Australia
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African Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini) Range: AF: coastal n Namibia to Kwa-Zulu Natal (s Africa) Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.

Eurasian Oystercatcher

Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) Near Threatened
Range: PAL: nw, sw, c Palearctic; far ne Palearctic

Photograph by Andreas Trepte Copyright and usage info


American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) Range: NA, MA, SA: widespread coastal w Mexico to sc Chile; coastal ne USA to n Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan Pen.; Caribbean (local) to s Argentina Paracas, Peru
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor) Range: AU: coastal North, South and Stewart is. (New Zealand) Point Chevalier, Auckland, New Zealand
Photograph by JJ Harrison Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba