List of Birds of New Jersey - Oystercatchers

Oystercatchers

Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Haematopodidae

The oystercatchers are large, obvious, and noisy plover-like birds with strong bills used for smashing or prying open molluscs. There is 1 New Jersey species.

  • American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus

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