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Black-necked Stilt
Himantopus mexicanus

From DVOC's Delaware Valley Birds: "Salt marshes, mudflats, and impoundments. Primarily in the Bombay Hook NWR / Little Creek WMA, DE area, with spring wanderers anywhere along the tidal Delaware River to Philadelphia."

© A & J Binns

Five calls of the Black-necked Stilt recorded at Santa Ana Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, Texas on April 15, 1995. ©Don Jones