Additional Information
English Black-winged Stilt
Scientific (Himantopus himantopus)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Recurvirostridae
Family (English) Stilts, Avocets
Other name(s)
Regions EU, AF, OR
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Nepal,Somalia,Guinea,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Portugal,Nigeria,Japan,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Maldives,Bangladesh,Mali,Croatia,Swaziland,Slovenia,Israel,Madagascar,India - mainland,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Singapore,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,Burkina Faso,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Cambodia,Libya,Rwanda,Syria,Benin,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Sri Lanka,China,Sierra Leone,Western Sahara,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Qatar,Philippines,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ghana,Djibouti,Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Poland,Togo,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Egypt,Australia,Macedonia,Switzerland,Norway,Cyprus,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Palau,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Cape Verde,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Italy,Zimbabwe,Bhutan,Yemen,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Albania,United States - Hawaii,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Congo,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,South Sudan,Montenegro,
Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
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German Stelzenläufer
French Échasse blanche
Chinese 黑翅长脚鹬
Japanese セイタカシギ
Russian Ходулочник
Spanish Cigüeñuela común
Portuguese pernilongo
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)