SOUTH AFRICAN STILT

381          SOUTH AFRICAN STILT                Himantopus himantopus meridionalis

South Africa              (74)

Currently classified as Black-winged Stilt, Himantopus himantopus,  but argument that it is a separate species. Range all over South Africa. Found in estuaries, marshes, saltpans, man-made impoundments, such as sewerage works.