Description:

Medium sized black and white, with broad white wing-bar and long reddish bill. Adult has head, neck and upper breast all black; scapulars, upperwing-coverts and tail also black; broad white wingbar from inner secondaries to middle primaries; middle and lower back, rump, uppertail-coverts, lower breast and belly white.

Distribution:

Vagrant during passage migration in Gilgit-Baltistan, rare inland and with no latest records. Mostly found near sparsely vegetated mud flats or sandy banks of wetlands, lakes, streams and also grasslands. In the areas occurs up to 3000m.

Behavior:

All oystercatchers attack different prey types using variety of techniques with prey species, its relative abundance in diet and foraging method all varying greatly with time, locality and individual. Feeds on mussels and other bivalves, limpets, whelks, marine polychaetes, crabs, earthworms and insect larvae, rarely fish.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Eurasian Oystercatcher in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Eurasian Oystercatcher

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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