An oystercatcher is a black and white bird with a long red beak. It lives near the sea and eats small shellfish.
oystercatcher in British English
(ˈɔɪstəˌkætʃə)
noun
any shore bird of the genus Haematopus and family Haematopodidae, having a black or black-and-white plumage and a long stout laterally compressed red bill
oystercatcher in American English
(ˈɔɪstərˌkætʃər)
US
noun
any of a family (Haematopodidae) of large, black-and-white shorebirds with a strong, reddish, wedge-shaped beak and stout legs, feeding chiefly on bivalve mollusks; esp., an American species (Haematopus palliatus)