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» ravenfairie - trying to identify a bird

Hi I was wondering if you would help me? I just moved to an island on the west coast
of Canada and there are so many wild birds around. I got a book on identification
but i keep seeing this birds that aren't in the book. I've done a search on the web,
but since i don't know a thing about birds or their family names i can't even guess
at what type of bird this might be.

So i thI'dht i'd ask you to see if you can help me figure out what the bird is.

I'll tell you want it looks like. It's all black or very dark brown. It has a bright
orange long beak and orange ( licolourin colour than the beak) legs that are not
webbed.

It stays near the shore of the ocean and there's often a flock of 12 or more.

It's about half the size of a common sea gull. In the bird book i have it looks a
lot like the sand pipers, but there are no black ones pictured in I'm

I know i'm not giving you much info to go on, i hope at least you can give me what
family in might be in or maybe you know of a good site i can search.

thanks so much for taking the time to read this and ponder my question. ravenfairiellis

aka ravenfairie
contributing editor ~ Shamanic healing @ suite101

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» carrot99 - Re: trying to identify a bird

Hi!

It looks like a black oystercatcher. Check out the National Audubon Society's Western bird ID guides. It's plate 259. If you plug black oyestercatcher into Google. You should come up with photos.

Hope that's the right ID!

-- posted by carrot99

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