Himantopus himantopus   Pak Thale🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesRecurvirostridae
Birds

🐦Black-winged Stilt

Himantopus himantopus (Linnaeus, 1758)

장다리물떼새(학명 : Himantopus himantopus)는 한반도를 비롯하여 전 세계 온대와 열대 기후 지역에 널리 분포하는 물떼새의 일종이다 4월중순 영종도에 날라와 4월~8월 짝집기하며 3~5알을 낳는다고 철새라고 윤순영씨 글이 한겨레 신문에 실렸다. 자세한 내용과 사진. http://plug.hani.co.kr/crane/2669134 보관됨 2018-08-21 - 웨이백 머신 몸길이는 37cm이고, 부리는 검고 가늘며, 다리는 매우 길다. 긴 분홍색 다리는 다른 종과 확연히 구별된다. 수컷의 몸 윗면은 진한 녹색이고, 암컷은 어두운 갈색이다. 눈 뒤와 뒷머리의 갈색 무늬는 개체에 따라 달라서 일부 개체는 완전히 흰색인 것도 있다. 얕은 물속을 걸어다니면서 어류, 곤충류, 갑각류 등을 잡아먹는다.

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

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

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

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

Danger to humans
harmless
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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.
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styltlöpare (sv), Stelzenläufer (de), camallarga (ca), pisila čáponohá (cs), Stylteløber (da), Himantopus himantopus (es) … and 27 more languages
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