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title: "Szczudłak białobrewy"
description: "Himantopus mexicanus — Ptaki. The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), also called the pied stilt, is a locally abundant shorebird of North and South American wetlands and coastlines."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/black-necked-stilt
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Szczudłak białobrewy

> Himantopus mexicanus — Ptaki. The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), also called the pied stilt, is a locally abundant shorebird of North and South American wetlands and coastlines.

- Scientific name: *Himantopus mexicanus*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 86308
- Wikidata: [Q280358](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q280358)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4836](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4836)

## Names

- en: Black-necked Stilt
- de: Amerikanischer Stelzenläufer
- es: Monjita Americana
- fr: Échasse d'Amérique
- nl: Amerikaanse steltkluut
- pl: Szczudłak białobrewy

## Countries with the most observations

US (49860), MX (16973), AR (4685), BR (2213), CA (1971), EC (1623), CL (1209), CR (823), PE (628), PR (613), CO (528), PA (475)

## Summary

The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), also called the pied stilt, is a locally abundant shorebird of North and South 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 Brazil, Peru and the Galápagos Islands, with an isolated population, the Hawaiian stilt, in Hawaii. The northernmost populations, particularly those from inland, are migratory, wintering from the extreme south of the United States to southern Mexico, rarely…

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

## Photo

![Szczudłak białobrewy](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-necked-stilt/medium.jpg)

Photo: Megan Ralph · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62596895

## Machine access

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