Banded Stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus)

Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus), Lake Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia

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pair of White-headed Stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus) in Sydney, Australia.

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BANDED STILT FACTS

distribution map showing range of Himantopus leucocephalus in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Classification

Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Recurvirostridae
Genus:	Himantopus
Species:	leucocephalus
Common Name:	Banded Stilt

Relatives in same Genus
Black-winged Stilt (H. himantopus)