White-backed Stilt (Himantopus melanurus)
About the White-backed Stilt
The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), also called the pied stilt, is a locally abundant shorebird of North and South 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 Brazil, Peru and the Galápagos Islands, with an isolated population, the Hawaiian stilt, in Hawaii. The northernmost populations, particularly those from inland, are migratory, wintering from the extreme south of the United States to southern Mexico, rarely as far south as Costa Rica; on the Baja California peninsula it is only found regularly in winter. Some authorities, including the IUCN, treat it as a synonym of Himantopus himantopus.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 93 recordings for this species: 18 CC BY-NC-SA · 6 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanusrecording
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopusrecording
- Pied StiltHimantopus leucocephalusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.