Sentences with phrase «white oystercatchers»

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Then the painter and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer suggested a different mechanism was at work: highly conspicuous markings, such as the zebra's stripes and the oystercatcher's black - and - white plumage, are actually disguises.

Ranges of the black oystercatcher and the brown - and - white American oystercatcher overlap in Baja California.