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South Island Oystercatcher

Haematopus finschi


The South Island Oystercatcher or South Island Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus finschi) is one of the two common found in New Zealand. Its name is often contracted to the acronym "SIPO" (rhyming with "typo").

Easily identifiable as a pied oystercatcher – a large wader with striking black and white plumage, long red-orange bill and red legs. Distinguish from pied morph of Variable Oystercatcher by white lower back, more white on wing and demarcation line of black and white on breast further forward. Distinguish from Pied Oystercatcher by longer bill and shorter legs as well as forward demarcation line of white on back being pointed rather than square. Measurements: length 46 cm; wingspan 80-86 cm; weight 550 g.Marchant, S.; Higgins, P.J.; & Davies, J.N. (eds). (1994). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 2: Raptors to Lapwings. Oxford University Press: Melbourne. ISBN 0-19-553069-1

 

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South Island Oystercatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South Island Oystercatcher or South Island Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus finschi) is one of the two common oystercatchers found in New Zealand. Its name is often ...
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Torea – South Island Pied Oystercatcher (SIPO) - Haematopus ...
Torea – South Island Pied Oystercatcher (SIPO) - Haematopus ostralegus finschi. Photographed on the Heathcote/Avon estuary, Christchurch. One of two ...
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New Zealand Birds | Birds | Gallery | Pied oystercatcher ...
Pied oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus finschi, New Zealand, bird, found in New Zealand Birds' bird gallery section, includes general information about the bird ...
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Breeding of South Island pied oystercatchers (Haematopus ...
Notornis, 2000, Vol. 47: 71 -81 0029-4470 O The Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Inc. 2000 Breeding of South Island pied oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus finschi) ...
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Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) | the Internet Bird ...
... Ostrero Euroasiático Other common names: Common/European/Nort hern Pied Oystercatcher, Sea Pie; South Island (Pied) Oystercatcher (finschi)
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Pied Oystercatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is a wading bird native to Australia and commonly found on its coastline. The similar South Island Pied Oystercatcher (H. finschi) occurs in New Zealand.
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Haematopus [moquini or meadewaldoi] - Avibase
Haematopus [longirostris or finschi] * Haematopus finschi * Haematopus longirostris Haematopus [moquini or meadewaldoi]←
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Eurasian Oystercatcher facts - Freebase
The South Island Oystercatcher or South Island Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus finschi) is one of the two common oystercatchers found in New Zealand.
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Habitat networks of indigenous shorebirds in New Zealand
... detailed accounts for the remaining seven species, two of which include two subspecies, making a total of nine taxa: •New Zealand pied oystercatcher ( Haematopus finschi ...
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Oyster Catchers (Charadriiformes) : Elm Wildlife Tours - Otago ...
South Island Pied Oyster Catcher (Haematopus finschi) (Toreo) These oyster catchers only breed in the South Island, mainly along the shingle river systems flowing ...
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Oystercatcher
The oystercatchers are a group of waders; they form the family ... South Island Pied Oystercatcher: H. finschi
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OYSTERCATCHER - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Two species of this wader occur in New Zealand-the South Island pied oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus finschi), which is only subspecifically different ...
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Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostrale gus) - BirdLife species ...
Taxonomic note Haematopus ostralegus and H. finschi (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993), cross-regional species, are retained as separate species contra Turbott (1990) who ...
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Oystercatchers - Treasures of the Sea
The South Island oystercatcher (SIO), H. finschi, has increased from 49, 000 to 85, 000 birds in the 1970s-1990s. Return to Page Top. Key Locations
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JONATHAN HARROD PHOTOGRAPHY: NEW CAMERA!
The South Island pied oystercatchers (Haematopus finschi) unlike their variable cousins breed inland along rivers, lakes and cultivated land; sometimes as far ...
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Oystercatcher page - Don Roberson Creagrus home
Hockey (1996) includes the South Island Oystercatcher H. finschi within the races of the Eurasian Oystercatcher H. ostralegus, but splits off the "Chatham Oystercatcher ...
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New Zealand Birds | Birds | Gallery of New Zealand Birds ...
Hockey (1996) includes the South Island pied oystercatcher, H. finschi, within the races of the Eurasian oystercatcher, H. ostralegus, but splits off the Chatham Island ...
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Pied Oystercatcher - Pictures and facts - Birds ...
The similar South Island Pied Oystercatcher (H. finschi) occurs in New Zealand. More. Common Pied Oystercatcher, or (in Europe) just Oystercatcher, is a wader in the ...
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Profilicollis novaezelandensis n. sp. (Polymorphidae) and two ...
Abstract. Profilicollis novaezelandensis n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) is described from the South Island pied oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus finschi ...
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Bird Species Of New Zealand Spur Winged Plover Pied Oystercatcher ...
Spur-winged Plover, Vanellus miles novaehollandiae, and a South Island Pied Oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus finschi, in an estuary near Hinahina along the Southern ...
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