wildcritters Nature Photography

CRITTER PHOTO #1278 

Birds, Shore

Oyster Catcher (feeding)

     
         
         

American Oyster Catcher

[Haemmatopus palliatus]

8/23/2020

Block Island RI

The bright orange-red billed oyster catcher only rarely eats its namesake bivalve mollusc, as evidenced by the littleneck clam clenched in this one's beak.

Photo# 1278

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