: Breeds. and but increasing May-Aug on Petit Manan Island and nearby Green Island where regularly seen from the visiting Bar Harbor whalewatch boats. It began nesting in lower Blue Hill Bayin 2019 on Trumpet Island, and in 2024 pairs nested on both Trumpet and adjacent Ship Island.
: mid/late April-mid May and again mid Sep-mid Oct with to late November. Most likely to be encountered on the southmost peninsulas and .
Miscellany: One of the 2015 Green Island pair was banded elsewhere and the band number read with a telescope. It had been banded initially as a nestling in 2006 on Nantucket, MA, and was sighted again in 2014 near Charleston, SC.
American Oystercatcher is one of the few birds that feeds on salt-water bivalve mollusks. They're efficient too; one of the Green Island birds was seen to extract the meat from a mussel in about three seconds.
Last Updated: May 28th, 2024