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English Eurasian Oystercatcher
Scientific (Haematopus ostralegus)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Haematopodidae
Family (English) Oystercatchers
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions nw, sw, c Palearctic; far ne Palearctic
Nonbreeding Range Subregions coastal AF, OR
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus, Benin,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,China,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France, Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guam,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau, Hungary,Iceland,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan, Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macedonia,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar, Namibia,Netherlands,Nigeria,North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Poland,Portugal, Qatar,Romania,Russia,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa, South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan, Tanzania,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan, Western Sahara,Yemen,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
ostralegus Iceland to Scandinavia, nw Russia s to Iberian Pen. and Turkey
longipes Ukraine to c Russia and w Siberia
buturlini w Kazakhstan to nw Xinjiang (nw China)
osculans coastal Kamchatka, Sea of Okhotsk (se Russia), coastal and inland n Korean Pen., ne China and Kinmen I. (off Fujian Province, e China)
IUCN Status Code NT (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
German Austernfischer
French Huîtrier pie
Chinese 蛎鹬
Japanese ミヤコドリ
Russian Кулик-сорока
Spanish Ostrero euroasiático
Portuguese ostraceiro-eurasiático
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)