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title: "Steltkluut"
description: "Himantopus himantopus — Vogels. The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed, very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family Recurvirostridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/black-winged-stilt
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Steltkluut

> Himantopus himantopus — Vogels. The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed, very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family Recurvirostridae.

- Scientific name: *Himantopus himantopus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 63931
- Wikidata: [Q178821](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178821)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4835](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4835)

## Names

- en: Black-winged Stilt
- de: Stelzenläufer
- es: Cigüeñuela común
- fr: Échasse blanche
- nl: Steltkluut
- pt: Pernilongo
- pl: Szczudłak zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

ES (7305), TW (6287), IN (5615), FR (4714), IT (4305), PT (4004), RU (3677), ZA (3316), HK (2225), CN (1828), TH (1420), GR (1100)

## Summary

The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed, very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family Recurvirostridae. Its scientific name, Himantopus himantopus, is sometimes used to generalize a single, almost cosmopolitan species. Alternatively, it is restricted to the form that is widespread in Europe, Asia and Africa, which equals the nominate group of H. himantopus sensu lato. Meanwhile, the black-necked (H. mexicanus) and white-backed stilts (H. melanurus) both inhabit the Americas; the pied stilt (H. leucocephalus) ranges from Australia and New Zealand. Today, most sources accept between…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-winged_stilt

## Photo

![Steltkluut](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-winged-stilt/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tero Linjama · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124245261

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-winged-stilt?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).