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The species Canary Islands Oystercatcher is extinct.

Haematopus meadewaldoi

[edit] Identification

Extinct. Status: almost certainly extinct, last record in 1913 altough there was a record of 2 birds in 1965. 43 cm, all black with red eye and orange eye-ring and bill. Looks like H. moquini but has shorter wings and longer bill.

[edit] Distribution

Canary Islands - Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Graciosa.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Rocky shores.

[edit] Behaviour

It laid its eggs in a scrape on the shore. 1 dull brownish grey egg, with black, dark brown, and dark purplish splotches, was laid and incubated for about 30 days; the young fledged about 35 days later.

The diet included invertebrates.

[edit] References

Wikipedia

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