Black-necked Stilt

What the Black-necked Stilt sounds like

Recorded by Jonathon Jongsma · Alarm call · Palo Alto Baylands, Santa Clara, California, United States · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Jonathon Jongsma · Call · Palo Alto Baylands, Santa Clara, California, United States · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via xeno-canto

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When to see the Black-necked Stilt

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-necked Stilt

The map shades 50 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Belgium, Spain, St. Lucia.

About the Black-necked Stilt

The black-necked stilt, also called the pied stilt, is a locally abundant shorebird of North and South American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida, then south through Central America and the Caribbean to Brazil, Peru and the Galápagos Islands, with an isolated population, the Hawaiian stilt, in Hawaii.

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Easily confused with

Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopusAdults are 33–36 cm (13–14 in) long, with long, pink legs, and a long, rather thin black bill. Pied StiltHimantopus leucocephalusThe pied stilt grows to a length of about 14 in (36 cm) with a wingspan of about 26.5 in (67 cm). Black StiltHimantopus novaezelandiaeBlack stilts are a medium-sized (220 g) wader with extremely long pink legs, red eyes, distinctively black plumage, and a long slender black bill.

Side by side: Black-necked Stilt vs Black-winged Stilt · Black-necked Stilt vs Pied Stilt