#Himantopus himantopus

[sugiichi]

Himantopus himantopus [セイタカシギ,Black-winged Stilt]

ダイナミックに水浴びしてました😳

[kavohh707]

Black winged stilt looking for some food in the water.

[ridiculousbirdfaces]

Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

[inatungulates]

Maasai giraffe Giraffa tippelskirchi tippelskirchi

With greater flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus, in water on left, and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus, in water on right

Observed by rikudoukarthik, CC BY

[birdblues]

Black-winged Stilt

[snototter]

A black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) foraging for food in India

by Gail Hampshire

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Black-winged stilts (Himantopus himantopus) and a great egret (Ardea alba) in the water at a beach in Kuwait City

Photograph: Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images

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[gergarnero]

CIGÜEÑUELA COMÚN

HIMANTOPUS HIMANTOPUS NOMBRE CIENTÍFICO: HIMANTOPUS HIMANTOPUS LONGITUD: 35 A 40 CM. PESO: 150 A 200 GRAMOS. PLUMAJE: DIFERENTE SEGÚN EL SEXO. MIGRATORIO: MIGRATORIO ESTADO: COMÚN. UBICACIÓN: EUROPA, ASIA, ÁFRICA. EN RELACIÓN CON SU TAMAÑO CORPORAL, ESTA ESPECIE TIENE LAS PATAS MÁS LARGAS DE TODAS LAS AVES, LO QUE LE PERMITE ALIMENTARSE EN AGUAS MÁS PROFUNDAS QUE MUCHAS OTRAS AVES ZANCUDAS. LA…

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Both females take turns incubating the eggs; in heterosexual pairs the two birds also share incubation duties, but in many cases the female contributes a disproportionately greater amount of time than does the male.

A nest with a "supernormal clutch" of eggs belonging to a pair of female Black-winged Stilts in Japan

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

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Divorce and remating may occur in male-female pairs of Black-winged Stilts, and some males engage in courtship and copulation with females other than their mates.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[sugiichi]

Tringa stagnatilis [コアオアシシギ,Marsh Sandpiper]

Himantopus himantopus [セイタカシギ,Black-winged Stilt]

セイタカシギの群と行動していたコアオアシシギ🥰

[kavohh707]

Working on my backlog and that means still pictures from my holidays in Portugal and one of my favorite birds from there - the black-winged stilt. I just love their form, like a bowling pin on red sticks, so cute.

[oh-dear-so-queer]

Because the eggs they lay are usually infertile, it is likely that many female Black-winged Stilts in lesbian pairs are exclusively homosexual, i.e., they do not copulate with males (at least for the duration of their bond).

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[herpsandbirds]

Encounter in the marsh...

Black-Winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus), family Recurvirostridae, order Charadriiformes, and a Lesser Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna javanica), family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Mulleriyawa Tank, Sri Lanka

photograph by Vajira Gunasekera

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Black-necked stilt don’t care by Jerry am Ende Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)