{"id":8380,"date":"2012-02-24T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/?post_type=sight-projects&#038;p=1028"},"modified":"2023-10-05T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T00:02:18","slug":"black-oystercatcher","status":"publish","type":"sight-projects","link":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/projects\/black-oystercatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Oystercatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  fetchpriority=\"high\"  decoding=\"async\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"683\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4844 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatcher-1024x683.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatcher-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatcher-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatcher-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatcher-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatcher-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatcher-scaled.jpg 2560w\" ><\/p>\n<p>We visited the West Coast National Park and went to Tsarbank, an area we hadn&#8217;t explored previously. It is a really beautiful place with the sea on one side and the Langebaan lagoon on the other. The beach is a small bay full of shells, hundreds of Cormorants and a few African Black Oystercatchers (Afrikaans name, Swarttobie) or Black Oystercatchers as they are more commonly called.<\/p>\n<p><img  decoding=\"async\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"683\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4845 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatchers-1024x683.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatchers-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatchers-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatchers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatchers-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatchers-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oystercatchers-scaled.jpg 2560w\" ><\/p>\n<p>This bird is quite striking with its red beak and eyes and pink feet on this very black body. the Black Oystercatcher is on the endangered list with a mere 5000 pairs remaining. Amazingly this bird can live up to 35 years old and they only start breeding at three years of age.<\/p>\n<p><img  decoding=\"async\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"683\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6297 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bl-Oyster-catch-3--1024x683.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bl-Oyster-catch-3--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bl-Oyster-catch-3--600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bl-Oyster-catch-3--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bl-Oyster-catch-3--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bl-Oyster-catch-3--220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bl-Oyster-catch-3-.jpg 1398w\" ><\/p>\n<p>We were very lucky to get fairly close to this pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We visited the West Coast National Park and went to Tsarbank, an area we hadn&#8217;t explored previously. 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