# Austernfischer Haematopus ostralegus Iceland RB

- By: Richard Bartz
- Date: Taken on 14 July 2013
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austernfischer_Haematopus_ostralegus_Iceland_RB.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Austernfischer_Haematopus_ostralegus_Iceland_RB.jpg/1920px-Austernfischer_Haematopus_ostralegus_Iceland_RB.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) also known as the Common Pied Oystercatcher, or (in Europe) just Oystercatcher, is a wader in the oystercatcher bird family Haematopodidae.