Black-Winged Stilt @ kavadi pat
Adults are 33–36 cm long. They have
long pink legs, a long thin black bill and are blackish above and white below,
with a white head and neck with a varying amount of black. Males have a black
back, often with greenish gloss. Females' backs have a brown hue, contrasting
with the black remiges. In the populations that have the top of the head
normally white at least in winter, females tend to have less black on head and
neck all year round, while males often have much black, particularly in summer.
This difference is not clear-cut, however, and males usually get all-white
heads in winter.
Immature birds are grey instead of black and have
a markedly sandy hue on the wings, with light feather fringes appearing as a
whitish line in flight.
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