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12th April 2012

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Plate 427 of John Audubon’s The Birds of America, the White-legged Oyster Catcher and the Slender-billed Oyster Catcher. (This bird’s common name, oystercatcher, hasn’t changed since Audubon’s time, and does beg the question- How hard can it be to catch an oyster when you’ve got wing? They aren’t exactly going to run away, are they?) 

Plate 427 of John Audubon’s The Birds of America, the White-legged Oyster Catcher and the Slender-billed Oyster Catcher. (This bird’s common name, oystercatcher, hasn’t changed since Audubon’s time, and does beg the question- How hard can it be to catch an oyster when you’ve got wing? They aren’t exactly going to run away, are they?) 

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