Oystercatchers
African Oystercatcher
Haematopus moquini
The African Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini) is a 692 g coastal bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Oystercatchers
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 692 g
- Habitat
- Coastal
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 2
Recorded in South Africa, Namibia.
Where to see it: Strandfontein WTP (South Africa); San Sebastian Peninsula · Land · please consider using different hotspots for birding on the sandbars and islands (Mozambique); Dunes de Dovela (Mozambique).
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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