I love seafood and any bird that specializes in feeding on oysters, clams, and mussels can’t be all bad. I saw the reddish-orange beak about 300 feet away and walked as close as I could get to snap this picture of one of a pair of American Oystercatchers. “The northernmost breeding populations, from Massachusetts to Virginia, are migratory, and appear to spend the winter in the southeastern United States. A number of Audubon Important Bird Areas (IBAs) provide critical nesting, migratory, and wintering habitat for American Oystercatchers. These IBAs include North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore IBA which supports 30 nesting pairs” according to Audubon.org.
Photo taken March 23, 2008 with Canon G7.
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