Adults: Upperparts and underparts entirely black. Eyering, bright red. Eye, yellow. Bill, bright red. Legs, pale yellow.
Immatures: Light adult but mantle, scapulars, wing-coverts, have brown fringes. In flight, underwing is paler. Eyering, orange-brown. Bill, dull red with blackish tip. Legs, dull pink.
Other Names (World)
Black Oystercatcher, American Black Oystercatcher
Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) [XC65838]
by Ian Cruickshank from Rocky Point Bird Observatory, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada (call)
Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) [XC741540]
by Andrew Spencer from Greater Vancouver A (near Delta), Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (alarm call, call)