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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Full Citation: Robinson, Julie A., J. Michael Reed, Joseph P. Skorupa, and Lewis W. Oring. 1999. No. 449 in: The Birds of North America: life histories for the 21st century, Alan Poole and F. Gill, editors. Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the American Ornithologists' Union. 32 pp.

Location: Wildlife Bureau Reference Shelves. (See also W99ROB01IDUS; species account is at http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/449, where it can be continually updated. From BNA: "The purpose of BNA being online is so that the content can be continually updated; therefore we discourage you from printing static copies, in case the information changes.")