Birds Thru My Eyes : CHINA / HONG KONG: Black-winged Stilt

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Order - Charadriiformes 鸻形目
Family - Recurvirostridae 反嘴鹬科 (Avocets, Stilts)
Genus - Himantopus 长脚鹬属

Black-winged Stilt

Himantopus himantopus

黑翅长脚鹬

Size : 35–40 cm; 166–205 g (mean of all races)

Subspecies and Distribution

Himantopus himantopus himantopus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Black-winged Stilt
– France and Iberia S to sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, and E to C Asia and NC China, Indian Subcontinent (including Sri Lanka), Indochina and Taiwan; winters S to Africa, Middle East and S & SE Asia to Borneo and Philippines.
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus (Gould, 1837) – Pied Stilt
– S Sumatra and Java E to New Guinea, and S to Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand; winters N to Philippines, Greater Sundas and Sulawesi, and as far as Sri Lanka.
Himantopus himantopus knudseni (Stejneger, 1887) – Hawaiian Stilt
– Hawaiian Is.
Himantopus himantopus mexicanus (Statius Müller, 1776) – Black-necked Stilt
– W & S USA through Central America and West Indies to Colombia, N Venezuela, Galapagos, E Ecuador to SW Peru, and NE Brazil.
Himantopus himantopus melanurus (Vieillot, 1817) – White-backed Stilt
– Chile and EC Peru through Bolivia and Paraguay to SE Brazil, and S to SC Argentina.