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Birds seen on seashores in the UK: Oystercatcher |
| ARKive - Oystercatcher
http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Haematopus_ostralegus/more_still_images.html Browse set of twenty-one colour images that relates the everyday activities of the oystercatcher. Includes nest, chicks and eggs, juveniles, and adults. |
| ARKive - Oystercatcher,
Haematopus ostralegus
http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Haematopus_ostralegus/more_info.html Offers data file on common UK wader that apparently has few threats. Read current status, physical description, range, habitat, and biology. |
| BBC: Science & Nature -
Oystercatcher
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/830.shtml Describes how oystercatchers break into shellfish and how they use their large numbers to attack predators. Also see three colour photographs showing distinctive markings. |
| Birds of Britain -
Oystercatcher http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/oystercatcher.htm Read about the friction between man and the bird that populates the shores of UK in great numbers. Also see colour illustration of the species. |
| British Trust for Ornithology
- Oystercatcher http://www.bto.org/birdtrends2004/wcroyste.htm Study current conservation listing of wader that is rapidly increasing in numbers in UK. Find actual numbers for 1974-2003 expressed as graph and table. |
| BTO - Oystercatcher,
Haematopus ostralegus http://blx1.bto.org/atlases/OC-atlas.html Offers set of four maps published by British Trust for Ornithology illustrating the density of breeding oystercatchers in Britain. Also table showing percentage change. |
| Bucks Birds - Oystercatcher,
Haematopus ostralegus http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/bucksbirds/mysite/Pictures/Oystercather.htm Releases information on the only location in UK county where oystercatchers breed. Also find large number of colour images of the species on ground and water. |
| Kenya Birds - Eurasian
Oystercatcher http://www.kenyabirds.org.uk/oyster.htm Provides details about wader that migrates as far south as Kenya. Tells of where to sight in Kenya and offers large close-up colour image. |
| RSPB - Oystercatcher,
Haematopus ostralegus
http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/o/oystercatcher/ Check out fact file from Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and learn about wader sporting black and white markings. Also distribution map of UK and illustration. |
| Tiscali Reference -
Oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/wildlife/birds_oystercatcher.html Inquire into the roosting behaviour of this large wader common in UK. Includes nesting, diet, and visual description, plus colour photograph. |
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Birds seen on seashores in the UK
