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Haematopus fuliginosus
Medium sized water bird with black feathers. It has a red eye, eye ring and pink legs. It has a long, straight beak, which is also red.
Along the coast. Photographed here on the rocky coast of Montague Island, New South Wales
Spotted on Sep 19, 2009
Submitted on Jul 15, 2011
3 Comments
Nice! I never seen the total black ones either :-)
@ Alice.. We have a few different varieties here also, I have photo of some pied Oyster Catchers that I took the following day.
Like your picture. I remember seeing Oyster catchers while we were in the Netherlands, but not the sooty variety.