Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Charadriiformes > Haematopodidae > Haematopus > Haematopus moquiniHaematopus moquini (African Oystercatcher)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. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.4536 EDGE Score: 3.04009 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 1.195 lbs (542 g) | | Birth Weight [2] | 55.8 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 100 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [2] | 4 | | Clutches / Year [1] | 1 | | Fledging [1] | 30 days | | Incubation [1] | 26 days | | Maximum Longevity [4] | 18 years | | | Female Maturity [1] | 3 years 11 months | | Male Maturity [1] | 3 years |
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IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alexandria coastal belt |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Algoa Bay Island Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Dassen Island |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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De Hoop Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Dwesa and Cwebe Nature Reserves |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Dyer Island Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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False Bay Park (proposed) |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lüderitz Bay islands |
Namibia |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Maitland: Gamtoos coast |
South Africa |
A1, A4i |
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Mercury Island |
Namibia |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Mile 4 saltworks |
Namibia |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Namib-Naukluft Park |
Namibia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Possession Island |
Namibia |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Rietvlei Wetland Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A4i |
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Robben Island National Historical Monument |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Sandwich Harbour |
Namibia |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Sperrgebiet |
Namibia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Swartkops estuary, Redhouse and Chatty saltpans |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Walvis Bay |
Namibia |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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West Coast National Park and Saldanha Bay islands |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 5SCOTT, H.A., DEAN, W.R.J. & WATSON, L.H. 2012. Diet and habitat use by the African Black Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini in De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa. Marine Ornithology 40: 1–10. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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