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Photo by Leslie
Location: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, California
Himantopus mexicanus

Identification

  • White underparts
  • Black wings and back
  • White tail with some grey banding
  • Black cap
  • Small white spot above eye
  • Long pink legs
  • Long thin black bill

Males - greenish gloss to back and wings, particularly in breeding season
Females - tinged brown.

Distribution

U.S. to southern Peru and Brazil; Hawaiian Islands.

Taxonomy

Subspecies1

  • H. m. mexicanus - W and s US to e Ecuador, sw Peru and ne Brazil; West Indies
  • H. m. knudseni - Hawaiian Islands

Habitat

Photo by Neil
Orlando, Florida, USA

Wetlands and coastlines, up to 2500m.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes aquatic invertebrates, crustaceans, arthropods, molluscs, small fish and tadpoles.

Breeding

They nest on mudflats; 3-5 eggs are laid, and are incubated by both sexes for 22-26 days. The young fledge after about 28 days.

References

  1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2008. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
  2. Wikipedia

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