Species profile
Canary Islands Oystercatcher
Haematopus meadewaldoi
Quick answer
Formerly Canary Is. Extinct; last reported 1950
- Scientific name
- Haematopus meadewaldoi
- Family
- Haematopodidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Haematopus
- Conservation status
- Extinct
Recording Canary Islands Oystercatcher in your journal
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Related species in Haematopodidae
- African Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini)
- American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
- black oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani)
- Blackish Oystercatcher (Haematopus ater)
- Chatham Islands Oystercatcher (Haematopus chathamensis)
- Cherevychnavis umanskae (Cherevychnavis umanskae)
- Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
- Haematopus spec (Haematopus spec)