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🐦Black-winged Stilt
L'Échasse blanche (Himantopus himantopus) est une espèce d'oiseaux Charadriiformes de la famille des Recurvirostridae. C'est une espèce d'échassier limicole vivant en Eurasie et en Afrique. Dans certaines taxonomies, l'espèce comprend aussi l'Échasse d'Australie (Himantopus leucocephalus), l'Échasse d'Amérique (Himantopus mexicanus) et l'Échasse à queue noire (Himantopus melanurus) qui vivent respectivement en Australie, en Amérique du Nord et en Amérique du Sud. Selon la classification de référence du Congrès ornithologique international (version 15.2, 2026), c'est une espèce monotypique (non subdivisée en sous-espèces).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 0.18 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 16 years
Everything we know about the Black-winged Stilt
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.18 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.16 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.07 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.22 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.07 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.11 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan16 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.2 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Black-winged Stilt yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderCharadriiformes
- ›familyRecurvirostridae
- ›genusHimantopus
- ›speciesHimantopus himantopus
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyRecurvirostridae
- genusHimantopus
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyRecurvirostridae
- genusHimantopus
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