oyster-catcher

Imagine this picture with oyster-catcher (Haematopus) colors (red-and-yellow stripes on the crest) and you've got the acrylic version.

Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Gallery Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009

Imagine this picture with oyster-catcher (Haematopus) colors (red-and-yellow stripes on the crest) and you've got the acrylic version.

Archive 2009-07-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009

The red-bill is, I believe, identical with the oyster-catcher of the Cornish coast.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

The purple-breasted and white-headed fruit-pigeons, pied oyster-catcher, masked and golden plover and the plumed egret have not been seen for years, and among the sea-birds the lesser crested, sooty and bridled terns find no place at date.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Along the shore, too, there is life; guillemot, oyster-catcher, tern are busy there; the wagtail is out in search of food, advancing in little spurts, trim and pert with its pointed beak and swift little flick of a tail; after a while it flies up to perch on a fence and sing with the rest.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

Here a few terns rear their young, and succeeding generations of the sooty oyster-catcher lay their eggs just out of the reach of high-tide.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

This was the sea-birds 'country: snipe, oyster-catcher, dunlin, and terns strewn in small pattering groups at the edge of the sea, where the long ripples ran towards the land and broke in long curving ruffs round the little humps of sand.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

I never tire of watching how the lonely white heron spears his scaly prey, how the clapper-rail floats on his raft of matted rushes, how the marsh-wren jerks his saucy little tail over his bottle-shaped nest, or how with quick and certain stroke the oyster-catcher extracts the juicy

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

I should have guessed that he was a professional oyster-catcher also, -- a human dredge, employed chiefly at the bottom of the sea.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

While I was employed upon the island with the theodolite Mr. Hunter, my companion, shot seven or eight brace of birds: they were of two kinds; one a species of oyster-catcher and the other a sandpiper.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King