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ˈoyster-ˌcatcher
[Cf. Fris. oestervisscher, Ger. austermann, austernfischer, and Linnæus' L. name ostralegus, mod.F. huîtrier.]
A maritime wading bird of the family Hæmatopodidæ with black-and-white or black plumage, and bill and feet of a brilliant red.
The common European species is Hæmatopus ostralegus Linn., the earlier Eng. name of which is Sea Pie; the N. American species is H. palliatus. As an English name ‘oyster-catcher’ appears first in connexion with the latter; it was used generically by Pennant Genera of Birds (1773) p. xxxi.
1731M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina (1754) I. 85 Hæmatopus... The Oyster Catcher. 1732Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 448 Hæmatopus... The Oyster-Catcher, so called, because it feeds upon Oysters, which it finds gaping when left dry on the Banks at low Water. 1846Stokes Discov. Australia II. vii. 254 Our game-bag was thinly lined with small curlews, oyster-catchers, and sanderlings. |