- English Common Name
- Black-winged Stilt
- Scientific name
- Himantopus himantopus
- Taxonomy
- Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Recurvirostridae
- Size
- 35 cm – 40 cm
- Species Distribution
- Widely distributed in the world (France, southern part of Iberia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Eastern and Central Asia, Northern and Central area of China, the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Taiwan)
- Okinawa Red List of Threatened Species: Vulnerable
- Japan Red List of Threatened Species: Vulnerable
- Adults have pink and skinny long legs. Since the species lightly moves around to get fed on the waterside, it is also known as “barrette dancer on watersides.”This migratory bird stays in Okinawa for winter.
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- Updated July 2017
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