![]() ![]() Royal SpoonbillĬredit: Spoonbill ( Platalea Regia) is a large white wading bird with a black, spoon-shaped beak and long black legs. The mating behavior of Comb-crested Jacana involves the male building a thin nest on the floating vegetation in which the female lays four eggs.īeing a polyandrous species, the male is the one that incubates and takes care of the younglings for a short period before they can fly.įun Fact: Because of its ability to walk on the water’s surface, Comb-crested Jacana is also known as Jesus bird. The plumage is also spectacular, with a black crown and back of the neck, a red wattle of flesh over its forehead and forecrown, white face, throat, and belly, and a very wide black stripe on the lower chest.Ĭomb-crested Jacana lives in vast freshwater wetlands, swamps, and lakes, waters with abundant floating vegetation, such as water-lilies, which form a “floor” on which the bird can walk.Ĭomb-crested Jacana feeds on insects and seeds it finds on the floating vegetation. Comb-Crested JacanaĬredit: marvelously odd shorebird Comb-crested Jacana ( Irediparra gallinacea) is also known as “lily trotter”, “lotusbird”.Ĭomb-crested Jacana is unique because of its enormously large feet (on already long legs), which allows it to walk on lily pads. Luckily, the younglings are provided with excellent camouflage and the ability to “freeze” when they are startled.įun Fact: A Pied Stilt parent bird can fake a leg injury to lure intruders away from the nest and chicks. Pied Stilts are seemingly attracted to the vicinity where red duckweed flourishes and will nest in areas of sand or alluviums in estuaries, dry riverbeds, on flat shores, or grassy fields near the sea.Ī superficial but well-camouflaged scrape in the ground is the nest in which Pied Stilts lay around 4 eggs.ĭespite the nest’s camouflage, adult Pied Stilt risk exposing the nests because they fly in circles above them, making loud distress noises. ![]() Sometimes, in New Zealand, it forms mixed flocks with Black Stilts. This waterbird feeds principally on mollusks and aquatic insects, after which it probes with its beak in the sediments of shallow waters. Pied Stilts are also known to be a vagrant to Japan and Christmas Island. ![]() Non-breeding populations of Pied Stilt can be found in Sri Lanka, Phillippines, Brunei, Palau, South Kalimantan, West and East Nusa Tenggara, East Timor, and New Guinea. ![]() The preferred territories of Common Redshank are fresh and coastal wetlands from temperate Eurasia, but being a migratory bird, in wintertime it can be found on the Mediterranean shores, on the Atlantic coast of Europe, and in South Asia.Ĭommon Redshanks feed on invertebrates (insects, small crustaceans, mollusks, worms), after which they probe with their long beaks, deep in the mud.Īt the beginning of the mating season, Common Redshank builds fake nests, and chooses just one of them within which to lay up to 4 eggs.Ĭommon Redshank males and females are loyal to the territory, they build the new nest within 50 meters from the last nest, and are faithful to one another.įun Fact: The female Common Redshank can lay the eggs in more than one nest, mainly because of disturbances and because it gets confused by so many nests! Pied StiltĬredit: Stilt, also called white-headed stilt ( Himantopus leucocephalus), is a shorebird about 36 cm tall, with shiny greenish-black on the back of the neck, the head, and the upper sides of the wings, and with long pink legs.īeing a waterbird, breeding populations of Pied Stilts can be found near waters in vast areas in Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, New Zeeland, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Redshank ( Tringa totanus) is a marbled brown wader with long orange-reddish legs and a red beak with a black tip. ![]()
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