Stilts, Avocets
Black Stilt
Himantopus novaezelandiae
The Black Stilt (Himantopus novaezelandiae) is a 195 g wetland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Stilts, Avocets
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 195 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 1
Recorded in New Zealand.
Where to see it: Miranda · main hide/Limeworks (New Zealand).
Photo: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
