#0579 · 🐦 birds
Pied Avocet
🇳🇱 Kluut ·Recurvirostra avosetta
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Erik Eckstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Di Franklin · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 3. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Chia⚡aka Cory Chiappone · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Donata Jonuškienė · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Zinogre · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © Птицы Челябинской области · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Leonard Wägele · CC0
- 10. © Zinogre · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The pied avocet ( Recurvirostra avosetta ) is a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. They breed in temperate Europe and western and Central Asia. It is a migratory species and most winter in Africa or southern Asia. Some remain to winter in the mildest parts of their range, for example in southern Spain and southern England. The pied avocet is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation...
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 1,409 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #48 most seen of the birds in NL.
- 27,565 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 32 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pied Avocet
- Nederlands
- Kluut
- scientific name
- Recurvirostra avosetta
- class
- Aves
- order
- Charadriiformes
- family
- Recurvirostridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 1,409
- sightings in Europe
- 17,309
- sightings worldwide
- 27,565
- GBIF records in NL
- 361,129
- weight
- 31.7 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Recurvirostridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4883, Wikidata Q26147, GBIF 2480259, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.