Listen to the Black-necked stilt
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About the Black-necked stilt
The Black-necked stilt is a bird in the family Recurvirostridae (order Charadriiformes). Adults weigh around 169 g.
What does the Black-necked stilt sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as call and alarm call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), also called the pied stilt, is a locally abundant shorebird of North and South American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida, then south through Central America and the Caribbean to Brazil, Peru and the Galápagos Islands, with an isolated population, the Hawaiian stilt, in Hawaii. The northernmost populations, particularly those from inland, are migratory, wintering from the extreme south of the United States to southern Mexico, rarely as far south as Costa Rica; on the Baja California peninsula it is only found regularly in winter. Some authorities, including the IUCN, treat it as a synonym of Himantopus himantopus.
Related birds in the genus Himantopus
More from the family Recurvirostridae
Frequently asked questions
What does a Black-necked stilt sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the Black-necked stilt on this page, including its call and alarm call. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
What family does the Black-necked stilt belong to?
The Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) belongs to the family Recurvirostridae in the order Charadriiformes.
Sources & credits
- Call · Palo Alto Baylands, Santa Clara, CA by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Alarm call · Palo Alto Baylands, Santa Clara, California, United States by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q280358 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Black-necked stilt – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Mike Baird – CC BY 2.0