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Black-winged Stilt photographed at Walkabout Creek, Brisbane Forest Park.
Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.
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Photographed at Currumbin Sanctuary, Gold Coast, Australia.
Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.
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Black-winged Stilt
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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BLACK-WINGED STILT FACTS |
Description
The Black-winged Stilt is a large black and white wader with long orange-red legs and a straight black bill. It has black on the back of the neck, a white collar
Other Names
Pied Stilt
Size
36cm
Habitat
shallow wetlands through most of Australia
Food
aquatic insects, molluscs and crustaceans
Breeding
nest varies from simple shallow scrape on the ground to a mound of vegetation in or near the water.
Range
widespread on the Australian mainland
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: | himantopus | | Common Name: | Black-winged Stilt |
Relatives in same Genus
Banded Stilt (H. leucocephalus)
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