South Island oystercatcher [SEP] parent taxon
South Island oystercatcher
The South Island oystercatcher or South Island pied oystercatcher ("Haematopus finschi") is one of the two common oystercatchers found in New Zealand. Its name is often contracted to the acronym "SIPO" (rhyming with "typo").
Description.
The South Island oystercatcher is easily identifiable as a pied oystercatcher – a large wader with striking black and white plumage, long red-orange bill and red legs. It is distinguished from the pied morph of the variable oystercatcher by a white lower
buttonquail, waders, gulls, alcids, and allies) Haematopodidae (oystercatchers).
- Magellanic oystercatcher
- Blackish oystercatcher
- Black oystercatcher
- American oystercatcher
- Canary Islands oystercatcher
- African oystercatcher
- Eurasian oystercatcher
- South Island oystercatcher
- Pied oystercatcher
- Variable oystercatcher
- Chatham oystercatcher
- Sooty oystercatcher
Charadriiformes (buttonquail, waders, gulls, alcids, and allies) Dromadidae (crab-plover).
- Crab-plover
Charadriiformes (buttonquail, waders, gulls, alcids, and