Scolder
Eurasian Oystercatchers have no fear. They’re happy to make the lives of any other bird, or even human, a misery with their constant alarm calls and physical attacks. Here’s one harassing a Great Skua.
Here on Westray, in Orkney parlance, it’s a Chaldro chasing a Bonxie.
![Bonxie and Oystercatcher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bonxie-and-Oystercatcher-The-Hall-of-Einar--725x483.jpg)
Bonxies will happily pluck a bird out of the air and kill it. Does that worry an Oystercatcher?
![Bonxie and Oystercatcher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bonxie-and-Oystercatcher-The-Hall-of-Einar-2-725x484.jpg)
Not a bit of it. It’s the Great Skua which is high-tailing it out of there.
![Bonxie and Oystercatcher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bonxie-and-Oystercatcher-The-Hall-of-Einar-5-725x484.jpg)
It’s the perfect welcoming party to Westray. Personally I’ll be steering well clear of both of them.