Key Identification Features
- However, its presence can be easily detected by its loud, distinctive warning calls.
- Hartert, 1927) has a distinctive black and white plumage and a long, thick orange-red beak.
- The species' call is a distinctive loud piping, very similar to the call of Eurasian oystercatchers.
- No other oystercatcher species shares both of these features, and it is also the only New World oystercatcher to have a black back rather than a brown one.
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