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English Eurasian Oystercatcher Scientific (Haematopus ostralegus) Order CHARADRIIFORMES Family (Latin) Haematopodidae Family (English) Oystercatchers Other name(s) Regions PAL Breeding Range nw, sw, c Palearctic; far ne Palearctic Nonbreeding Range coastal AF, OR Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Somalia,Guinea,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Portugal,Nigeria,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Bangladesh,Mali,Croatia,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,India - mainland,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Taiwan,Serbia,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Belarus,Netherlands,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,United Arab Emirates,Guam,Libya,North Korea,Syria,Benin,Hungary,Pakistan,Sri Lanka,China,Sierra Leone,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Ireland,Qatar,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Iceland,Ghana,Djibouti,Tajikistan,South Korea,Poland,Togo,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Canada,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Austria,Kazakhstan,Cape Verde,Jordan,Uganda,Italy,Yemen,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Bahrain,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Albania,Democratic Republic of Congo,South Sudan,Montenegro, 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 Sound File(s) link return with BackGerman Austernfischer French Huîtrier pie Chinese 蛎鹬 Japanese ミヤコドリ Russian Кулик-сорока Spanish Ostrero euroasiático Portuguese ostraceiro-eurasiático Bird Data app text
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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, 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)
