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SOOTY OYSTERCATCHER FACTS |
Description
Body black, legs pink, bill red-orange. Red ring around eye. Body up to 48 cm long.
Sooty Oystercatchers are usually seen in pairs, but form flocks in the non-breeding season, from January to August. They eat molluscs, worms, jellyfish, crustaceans and echinoderms.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Rocky coastal areas and islands, sometimes intertidal mudflats.
Food
Carnivore
Range
Mainland Australian and Tasmanian coasts.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Charadriiformes | | Family: | Haematopodidae | | Genus: | Haematopus | | Species: | fuliginosus | | Common Name: | Sooty Oystercatcher |
Relatives in same Genus
Pied Oystercatcher (H. longirostris)
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