PIED STILT

(*   22)                 PIED STILT                 Himantopus himantopus 

NEW ZEALAND             38

Breeds on riverbeds, lake margins, and damp pastures. 35 cm. An abundant native in New Zealand; most of the 30,000 birds in NZ form flocks at estuaries and lakes outside breeding season; many South Island and southern North Island birds migrate to northern North Island after breeding season.

Photographed at Napier, New Zealand June 2017

BLACK-WINGED STILT

Subspecies himantopus, photographed March 2017

(*   22)             BLACK-WINGED STILT                Himantopus himantopus 

SRI LANKA                       59

Found on freshwater and brackish shallow waters in marshes, lagoons and tanks. 35-40 cm. Fairly common breeding resident in dry lowlands; a few birds breed in wet lowlands, large numbers of winter migrants occur in lowlands.

BLACK-WINGED STILT

22      BLACK-WINGED STILT          Himantopus himantopus

Also known as Pied or White-headed stilt. It is 33-38 cms. Swamps, lakes, shallow rivers, salt pans, tidal estuaries, mudflats. Found in most of Australia except central east of Western Australia. Found in pairs, small groups, sometimes large groups.

Photographed near Singleton