#0702 · 🐦 birds
Black-winged Stilt
🇳🇱 Steltkluut ·Himantopus himantopus
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- 1. © Paolo Zucca · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Ivan Smorkalov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Elio Giacone · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Afsar Nayakkan · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Wich’yanan (Jay) Limparungpatthanakij · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Kelvin Joshua Che · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The black-winged stilt ( Himantopus himantopus ) is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family (Recurvirostridae). It is now widely accepted that the scientific name H. himantopus which was formerly applied to a single almost cosmopolitan species and is now normally applied to the widespread form from Eurasia and Africa which was formerly regarded as the nominate subspecies of Himantopus himantopus sensu lato . The scientific name Himantopus comes from the Greek meaning "strap...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 155 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 65,281 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 160 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black-winged Stilt
- Nederlands
- Steltkluut
- scientific name
- Himantopus himantopus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Charadriiformes
- family
- Recurvirostridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 155
- sightings in Europe
- 27,824
- sightings worldwide
- 65,281
- GBIF records in NL
- 78,596
- weight
- 160 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Recurvirostridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4835, Wikidata Q178821, GBIF 5229126, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.