Banded Stilt

Cladorhynchus leucocephalus

Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_8333 20190105

Notes: Highly gregarious, elegant. Stockier, shorter wings & legs than Pied Stilt.
Chestnut breast band on adults only. White head, mantle. Broad white trailing edge
to black wings. Lives mainly on salt lakes, saline wetlands, sheltered lagoons.

Range from eBird^©(last 10 years)

Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_1786 20190430 Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_1775 20190430 Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_9479 20210419 Rottnest Isl., SW WA IMG_7455 20181015 Rottnet Isl., SW WA IMG_7572 20181015 - non-breeding moult Scott Pt., Fowlers Bay Cons Res, S SA IMG_3902 20181124 - juvenile Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic MVI_1783 20190420 Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic MVI_8336 20190105 Scott Point, Fowlers Bay Conservation Reserve, SW SA MVI_3910 20181124 - juvenile

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