American Oystercatcher © Samantha Klein

Large. Medium, straight bill. Sexes alike. Adults: Head, neck, throat, breast, black. Rest of upperparts, dark brown. Belly, rump, white. Eyering, red. Eye, yellow. Tail, base white. Narrow, short, white wingbar visible in flight. Underwing primaries, black. Secondaries, outer greater coverts, white with black tips. Bill, red with a yellowish tip. Legs, pink. Immatures: Like adult but black parts have brownish edges. Eye, dark. Bill, red with a dark tip. Legs are paler.

Vagrant to Jamaica.

• palliatus Temminck, 1820   -  Coasts of North and South America, from Gulf of California to central Chile, and from Massachusetts to south-central Argentina, including West Indies.
• galapagensis Ridgway, 1886   -  Galapagos Is.

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