The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy
Author
Bishop, K. David
text
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club
2023
2023-03-06
143
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journal article
298463
10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2
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***BLACK-WINGED STILT
Himantopus himantopus
Status
Vagrant. First documented record for Australasia (Beehler & Pratt 2016,
Menkhorst
et al
. 2017
).
24 September 2019
: an adult male (all-white head) first seen by D. Ashdown and photographed by P. Lansley (
Fig. 8
), feeding on mudflats in the tsunami swamp. It lacked the black on nape of adult Pied Stilt
H. leucocephalus
or browner wings with pale fringes to the primaries and coverts of young Pied Stilt, which do have white heads. It lacked the broad white mantle and back of Banded Stilt
Cladorhynchus leucocephalus
(P. Lansley, eBird checklist S64696799). Widespread throughout the Old World, Black-winged Stilt winters east and south to Borneo (
Eaton
et al
. 2021
) and the
Philippines
(
Dickinson
et al
. 1991
).