#Black Winged Stilt

[kavohh707]

Black winged stilt looking for some food in the water.

[blogbirdfeather]

Black-winged Stilt - Pernilongo (Himantopus himantopus)

Vila Franca de Xira/Portugal (31/10/2024)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR with Nikon AF-S TC-14E III]

[birdblues]

Black-winged Stilt

[snototter]

A black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) foraging for food in India

by Gail Hampshire

[dovemoulins]

some silly stilts

[littlestampcollection]

[graveyardrabbit]

listen, I know everyone in the world has already made all kinds of jokes about bird names, however

I’m at all times delighted to know that there’s a whole family of birds named stilts because like

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yeah man, sure is

[nuclearbedbug]

Stupid silly bird :3

[thebigkelu]

[tenth-sentence]

And finally, in many species (e.g., Greylag Geese, Oystercatchers), individuals form bisexual trios that parent offspring together (often contrasting with heterosexual trios and/or homosexual pairs within the same species).⁶⁷

67. Western Gull (Hunt et al. 1984); Black-winged Stilt (Kitagawa 1988); Lesser Scaup Duck (Afton 1993; Munro 1941); Acorn Woodpecker (W. D. Koenig, personal communication); Squirrel Monkey (Ploog 1967:159-60); Greylag Goose (Lorenz 1979, 1991); Oystercatcher (Heg and van Treuren 1998). Although female coparents in Acorn Woodpeckers are "platonic" in that they do not specifically engage in courtship or sexual behavior with one another, they still participate in group mounting displays characteristic of this species (which usually include homosexual mounting and may actually involve mounting of their coparent).

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[subbalakshmisastry]

Awesome , Artistic Black Winged Stilt in Kukkarahalli Lake / Kukkarahal...

[kavohh707]

Cute little juvenil black-winged stilt. Just look at those long legs. It is really not easy for them to reach the ground, a bit like a giraffe.

[blogbirdfeather]

Black-winged Stilt - Pernilongo (Himantopus himantopus)

Vila Franca de Xira/Portugal (25/06/2024)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR; 1/2500; F6,3; 400 ISO]

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Both females take turns incubating the eggs; in heterosexual pairs the two birds also share incubation duties, but in many cases the female contributes a disproportionately greater amount of time than does the male.

A nest with a "supernormal clutch" of eggs belonging to a pair of female Black-winged Stilts in Japan

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[oh-dear-so-queer]

Because the eggs they lay are usually infertile, it is likely that many female Black-winged Stilts in lesbian pairs are exclusively homosexual, i.e., they do not copulate with males (at least for the duration of their bond).

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[dovemoulins]

pied and black winged stilts 🖤🤍