Black-winged stilt / Stelzenläufer (Himantopus himantopus)

Black winged stilt. 2024-02-24 09.29.24 Laos
Classification: Genus Himantopus; Family Recurvirostridae
General: The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family (Recurvirostridae). The scientific name H. himantopus was formerly applied to a single, almost cosmopolitan species. It is now normally applied to the form that is widespread in Eurosiberia and Africa and which was formerly regarded as the nominate subspecies of Himantopus himantopus sensu lato. The scientific name Himantopus comes from the Greek meaning "strap foot" or "thong foot".^[2] Most sources today accept 2–4 species.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} It is sometimes called pied stilt, but that name is now reserved for the Australian species, Himantopus leucocephalus. [more]
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Habitats: Wetland

Call: Automatically generated from Xeno-Canto recording

♫ XC863470 - Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus - flight call, a squeaky yapping - Camargue, France. Source: XENOCANTO XC863470 - Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus - flight call, a squeaky yapping - Camargue, France.mp3 (flight call)


Call attributes: flight call Frequency: ,
First documented observation : 2022-04-12 in Mallorca.