African oystercatcher

African oystercatcher
	African oystercatcher in Betty's Bay
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Haematopodidae
Genus:	Haematopus
Species:	H. moquini
Binomial name
	Haematopus moquini; Bonaparte, 1856
	African oystercatcher Population and Breeding Range. Orange = Breeding Range, Pale Orange = Population Range.
Synonyms
	Metanibyx africana ?; Haematopus niger Moquin, 1820; Ostralega capensis Lichtenstein, 1823; Haematopus capensis Gray, 1847; Melanibyx moquini Reichenbach, 1851; Haematopus unicolor Lichtenstein, 1854; Melanibyx capensis Heine, 1890; Haematopus ostralegus moquini Peters, 1934

The African oystercatcher or African black oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini) is a large charismatic wader resident to the mainland coasts and offshore islands of southern Africa. This near-threatened oystercatcher has a population of over 6,000 adults, which breed between November and April. The scientific name moquini commemorates the French naturalist Alfred Moquin-Tandon who discovered and named this species before Bonaparte.

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