Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)

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The focus of this account is on North American populations of black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus mexicanus, excluding its range in Middle America and northern South America) and on the Hawaiian stilt (H. m. knudseni) and provides the known information about the black-necked stilt’s life history, including distribution, migration, habitat, food habits, sounds, behavior, and breeding. Research on the species has focused on behavior and population ecology. Black-necked stilts have also been a primary focus of ecotoxicological studies of the effects of irrigation drainwater on breeding waterbirds, and effects of selenium contamination on hatching success have been documented. The cumulative effects of wetland contamination and shifts in habitat availability on stilt populations remain elusive. More recently, population studies of hundreds of marked individuals in California, Nevada, and Utah provided data on migratory movements, natal and breeding dispersal, population regulation, and population spatial structure.

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Location: This record is to the online (http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/449/) version; note to this effect is in ELECTRONIC FILES - Zoology. (The original 1999 printing by BNA should be available in the Wildlife Bureau, on reference shelves, in the black-boxed BNA collection of monographs.)

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Recommended citation: Robinson, Julie A., J. Michael Reed, Joseph P. Skorupa and Lewis W. Oring. 1999. Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/449 doi:10.2173/bna.449.

SWAP (2/19/2016) citation: Robinson JA, Reed MJ, Skorupa JP, Oring LW. 1999. Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus). The Birds of North America Online. (A Poole, editor). Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. [accessed 2015 Jun 01]. http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/449/