Banded Stilt - BirdForum Opus

Photo by peterday
Magasine Road wetland, South Australia, December 2014

Cladorhynchus leucocephalus

Identification

• Long, thin bill
• Long pink legs
• White head, neck and body contrast with black wings
• Broad deep chestnut breast band
  

Non-breeding adults have a less well-defined breast-band
Immatures lack the breast band altogether

Distribution

Southwestern and south-central Australia.

Taxonomy

A monotypic species^[1]

Habitat

Inland salt lakes.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes a variety of small shellfish and vegetable matter.

Breeding

They breed on islets in inland salt lakes after rain, occasionally in other areas of bare, sandy soil. The nest is a ground scrape sometimes lined with dry vegetation.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Arthur Grosset
3. Birds in Backyards
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Banded Stilt. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Banded_Stilt

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