Stilts, Avocets
Black-winged Stilt
Himantopus himantopus
The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family (Recurvirostridae). It is now widely accepted that the scientific name H. himantopus which was formerly applied to a single almost cosmopolitan species and is now normally applied to the widespread form from Eurasia and Africa which was formerly regarded as the nominate subspecies of Himantopus himantopus sensu lato.
- Family
- Stilts, Avocets
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 177 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 112
