Shorebirds - Black-Necked Stilt, Black-Tailed Godwit, Piping Plover, Black-Winged Stilt, Ruddy Turnstone, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Common Snipe (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Black-necked Stilt, Black-tailed Godwit, Piping Plover, Black-winged Stilt, Ruddy Turnstone, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Common Snipe, Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Kentish Plover, Grey Plover, Black Turnstone, Wood Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Black Oystercatcher, Short-billed Dowitcher, American Golden Plover, Grey-tailed Tattler, Willet, Little Stint, Greater Yellowlegs, Marbled Godwit, Lesser Yellowlegs, American Avocet, Latham's Snipe, American Oystercatcher, Semipalmated Plover, Swinhoe's Snipe, Wilson's Plover, Hudsonian Godwit, Long-billed Dowitcher, Asiatic Dowitcher, Subantarctic Snipe, White-headed Stilt, Wood Snipe. Excerpt: The Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida, then south through Central America and the Caribbean to northwest Brazil southwest Peru, eastE Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. The northernmost populations, particularly those from inland, are migratory, wintering from the extreme south of the United States to southern Mexico, rarely as far south as Costa Rica; on the Baja California peninsula it is only found regularly in winter. Black-necked Stilt of Quintana, TexasIt is often treated as a subspecies of the Common or Black-winged Stilt, using the trinomial name Himantopus himantopus mexicanus. However, the AOU has always considered it a species in its own right, and the scientific name Himantopus mexicanus is often seen. Matters are more complicated though; sometimes all five distinct lineages of the Common Stilt are treated as different species. But the White-necked Stilt from southern South America (H. h. melanurus when only one species is recognized), parapatric and in...