#1320 · 🐦 birds
American Avocet
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Kluut ·Recurvirostra americana
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jeanene Jewett aka "JJ" · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Andrea Kingsley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Mike Stewart · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Mike Baird · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Mike Baird · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © David A. Hofmann · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © Jeff Skrentny · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Paul Donahue · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The American avocet ( Recurvirostra americana ) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. This avocet spends much of its time foraging in shallow water or on mud flats, often sweeping its bill from side to side in water as it seeks its crustacean and insect prey....
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.
- 43,823 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 316 g.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- American Avocet
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Kluut
- scientific name
- Recurvirostra americana
- class
- Aves
- order
- Charadriiformes
- family
- Recurvirostridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 43,823
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 316 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Recurvirostridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4885, Wikidata Q469992, GBIF 2480258, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.