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black-winged stilt

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Noun1.black-winged stilt - stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wingsblack-winged stilt - stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings
genus Himantopus, Himantopus - major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills
Himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt plover, stiltbird, stilt - long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons


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A rare black-winged stilt reeding at at altitudes of over 700m.
It's the first successful hatching of black-winged stilts since 1987, when two chicks were raised in Norfolk.
The black-winged stilts, which normally breed in mainland Europe, have set up home near Marbury Country Park in Cheshire.
 
 
 
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