Banded Stilt
Cladorhynchus leucocephalus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The banded stilt is a wader of the stilt and avocet family, Recurvirostridae, native to Australia. It belongs to the monotypic genus Cladorhynchus. It gets its name from the red-brown breast band found on breeding adults, though this is mottled or entirely absent in non-breeding adults and juveniles. Its remaining plumage is pied and the eyes are dark brown. Nestling banded stilts have white down, unlike any other species of wader.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Recurvirostridae
- Genus
- Cladorhynchus