This is an oystercatcher, right? Right.  (I know it’s black, but they have the All Blacks in NZ so who’s arguing).

Well:

a) Oysters don’t need catching. They just sit there, snoofling a bit of seawater through their gills, but not actually going anywhere.

b) I’ve never seen an oystercatcher catch an oyster.  Mostly they zoom around picking up morsels, or, like this one, stand there doing nothing.

c) In the unlikely situation where an oystercatcher did it’s job and caught an oyster, it wouldn’t have a rat’s of opening it with its dinky little beak – I have trouble with a knife.

I rest my case.

Personally I prefer Lammergeiers, vultures, eagles and hummingbirds – birds with a bit of engineering.