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Himantopus himantopus Pak Thale🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesRecurvirostridae
Birds

🐦Black-winged Stilt

Himantopus himantopus (Linnaeus, 1758)

セイタカシギ（丈高鷸、背高鷸、学名:Himantopus himantopus）は、チドリ目セイタカシギ科に分類される鳥類の一種。脚が非常に長く背が高いのが特徴。

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

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 mass
0.18 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.16 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.22 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
16 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyRecurvirostridae
  6. ›genusHimantopus
  7. ›speciesHimantopus himantopus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyRecurvirostridae
  4. genusHimantopus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyRecurvirostridae
  11. genusHimantopus
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Redshank — last shared an ancestor ≈ 64 million years ago.
In other languages
styltlöpare (sv), Stelzenläufer (de), camallarga (ca), pisila čáponohá (cs), Stylteløber (da), Himantopus himantopus (es) … and 27 more languages
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Himantopus himantopus Pak ThaleBallet for food Serengeti Tanzania (Black winged Stilt) (20118339386)
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