SOUTH ISLAND PIED OYSTERCATCHER

Photographed at Stockyard Point, Victoria, June 2017

(*  1199)                    SOUTH ISLAND PIED OYSTERCATCHER             Haematopus finschi 

AUSTRALIA                 710

Often referred to as SIPO. A vagrant from NZ occasionally recorded on e coast of Aust; seven records on east coast. 

PIED OYSTERCATCHER

137            PIED OYSTERCATCHER           Haematopus longirostris

Australia      (137)

Also known as Eugerie-bird, Redbill, Seapie or Wongbird. Ranges across all suitable habitats around the coast of Australia and Tasmania. Found on undisturbed sandy, shell grit or pebbled beaches, sandbars, tidal mudflats, and parks or paddocks near the coast. 42-51 cm.