White-headed Stilt

White-headed Stilt

Taxobox
name = White-headed Stilt



image_width = 220px
image_caption = Adult male
status = LC
status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves

ordo = Charadriiformes

familia = Recurvirostridae
genus = "Himantopus"
species = "H. himantopus" (disputed)
subspecies = "H. h. leucocephalus"
trinomial = "Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus"
binomial_authority = Gould, 1837
synonyms ="Himantopus leucocephalus" Gould, 1837 (but see text)

The White-headed Stilt or Pied Stilt is a bird in the Recurvirostridae family. It is sometimes treated as a distinct species "Himantopus leucocephalus", sometimes included in the Common or Black-winged Stilt as "Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus".

This shorebird is found in Australia, Brunei, Christmas Island, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines.

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* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/49126/all Himantopus leucocephalus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 28 July 2007.


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