Monday, May 1, 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.




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