🐾 Black-necked Stilt

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The black-necked stilt ( Himantopus mexicanus ) is a locally abundant shorebird of 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 Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands. The northernmost populations, particularly those from inland, are migratory, wintering from the extreme south of the United States to... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Record card

Scientific name	Himantopus mexicanus
Rank	species
Community observations	87,673 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Charadriiformes › family Recurvirostridae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Black-necked Stilt photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Culiacán, Sin., México
(c) Marco Polo amarillas vargas, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Black-necked Stilt photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-09 · San Antonio, 29250 San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chis., México
(c) Diego Manzano Méndez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Black-necked Stilt photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · W Bethany Home Rd, Glendale, AZ, US
(c) Lucus Perrone, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Black-necked Stilt photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-14 · Santo Domingo, Valparaíso, Chile
(c) Miguel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · cc-by-sa

Black-necked Stilt photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · 48987 Jal., México
(c) Juan C.M., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Black-necked Stilt photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Island of Hawaiʻi, Kailua Kona, HI, US
(c) Mimi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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