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The rebel
Jaysan

The rebel (Haematopus ostralegus)

Just because you lot call me an oystercatcher, doesn't mean I have to! And anyway, there are hardly any oysters in Musselburgh.

Apparently the name is appropriate to their American cousins. The local names (Shalder in Shetland and Sea Pie in parts of the UK) seems more apt to the local ones.

https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2009/03/13/return-of-mis-named-oystercatcher
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Habitat
Coastal
Location
Musselburgh
Date taken
Sept 2020
Scientific name
Haematopus ostralegus
Equipment used
Canon 100-400, EOS R
KC Foggin
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Opus Editor
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I guess they eat what they can find ;)

A great image of this insect eating Oystercatcher Jaysan!
 
Kits
A well timed and detailed behavioural capture, Jaysan.
 
delia todd
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Opus Editor
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You've got some wonderful detail in this picture Sandeep.

That's an excellent job you've done with this Oystercatcher my friend. Many thanks laddie.
 
Stanley Jones
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Lol, I have seen them catch fish in Per. Excellent picture showing their like for various food. TFS Sandeep!
 
Doc Duck
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Aha! That's a word I didn't learn when I spent a week in the Shetlands - even though I went to a lecture on the Shetland language and its connections to Norse and Dutch. Sjalder pretty obviously (to me) is a Norse word. In modern Norwegian their name is tjeld (pronounced almost like shelled).
 

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