#1044 · 🐦 birds
Black-necked Stilt
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Steltkluut ·Himantopus mexicanus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © JuanFelipeRR · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Daniel Alexander Carrillo Mtz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © João Vitor Andriola · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 5. © Manuel A. Pérez R. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Diego Carús · CC0
- 7. © Kevin Schafer · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Chris Evers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © j_ballard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Sean Cozart · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The black-necked stilt ( Himantopus mexicanus ) is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida, then south through Central America and the Caribbean to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands. The northernmost populations, particularly those from inland, are migratory, wintering from the extreme south of the United States to...
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 87,679 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 169 g.
- Scientifically named by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller in 1776 (250 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black-necked Stilt
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Steltkluut
- scientific name
- Himantopus mexicanus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Charadriiformes
- family
- Recurvirostridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2
- sightings worldwide
- 87,679
- GBIF records in NL
- 119
- weight
- 169 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1776 by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
relatives· Recurvirostridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4836, Wikidata Q280358, GBIF 5229128, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.