any of several long-billed, maritime wading birds constituting the genus Haematopus, with a plumage chiefly of black and white, as the pied oystercatcher, H. longirostris, of Eurasia, southern Africa and Australasia.
any of several long-billed, maritime wading birds constituting the genus Haematopus, with a plumage chiefly of black and white, as the pied oystercatcher, H. longirostris, of Eurasia, southern Africa and Australasia.