#Recurvirostridae

[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

[webberwoof]

commission for @captious-solarian!! so incredibly fun to draw!!! ❤️❤️

i still have 4 slots open for $35 AUD bird drawings if anyone is interested!

[spinus-pinus]

Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus

8/2024 Orange County, California

anyagor via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Day 4 of Pied Month! Avocet? More like arospec! (was originally going to be aroacet, thought of the better pun during the end of the inking)

Reference photo by Andreas Trepte

I'm on Cara now! (social media for artists that's anti-AI). Follow me @ TBalderdash!

[alonglistofbirds]

[1355/10977] Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Charadrii Family: Recurvirostridae (stilts and avocets)

Photo credit: Dorian Anderson via Macaulay Library

[birdblues]

Black-winged Stilt

[snototter]

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

by Gail Hampshire

[birdsagainstgravity]

American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana)

© Ethan Denton

[podartists]

Säbelschnäbler, Recurvirostra avocetta | Die Vögel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

[ornithological]

a flock of pied avocets (recurvirostra avosetta) in flight over the ebro delta, spain

[wingedjewels]

American Avocet Female by Georgie Alexon Via Flickr: This American Avocet was too busy looking for her breakfast to notice me taking his photograph. I believe this is a female as the bill of the female is shorter and slightly more upturned than that of the males. This photograph was taken on a sunny morning at Frank Lake, Alberta, Canada -Recurvirostra americana

[travelella]

American Avocet - Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center, Ross Avenue, Port Aransas, Texas, USA

Joshua J. Cotten

Scientific name: Recurvirostra americana

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable) 

Family: Recurvirostridae

Mass: 12 oz 

Life span: about 9-15 years 

Class: Aves

Genus: Recurvirostra

The American avocet is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae, found in North America. It spends much of its time foraging in shallow water or on mud flats, often sweeping its bill from side to side in water as it seeks crustacean and insect prey.

American Avocets are medium-distance, continental migrators from southern Canada to Mexico. In Canada they are known to congregate in flocks of up to 100 birds. They are monogamous and loosely colonial and use loud and melodic calls, group distraction displays, and mobbing of a predator as their typical defense.

American avocets commonly are found on mudflats, in saline lakes, in fresh water and saltwater marshes and on coastal bays. They may be found in migration from March to May, and again from July to October. Their nesting grounds are in the Great Basin region of the western United States.

[webberwoof]

pied and black winged stilts 🖤🤍

[captious-solarian]

Royal spoonbill (Platalea regia) and pied stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus) by @webberwoof.

Excellent commission experience: Milo is very kind and friendly, and got this one done super fast.

I found it hard to choose which birds to commission, but when I saw a royal spoonbill and pied stilt wading together, I thought that deserved a drawing. (IRL, royal spoonbills aren't yet in breeding plumage around here, but I like the look better, so there.)

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Migratory May Day 7: Black-Necked Stilt

Reference photo by Andres Leon

[alonglistofbirds]

[1241/10977] Black-necked Stilt - Himantopus mexicanus

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Charadrii Family: Recurvirostridae (stilts and avocets)

Photo credit: Max Malmquist via Macaulay Library