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Mark Billiau.


Premium (World), region Antwerp, Belgium

Oystercatcher

The oystercatcher is an European wader.

Originally, it’s a coastal species, that is still found around the coastline, but since the mid seventies of last century, this bird has increasingly colonised inland rivers and lochs.

The first observation of oystercatchers nesting on grassland away from the coast happened already in 1940.

Dutch name : Scholekster
German name : Austernfischer
Latin name : Haematopus ostralegus

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