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Pied Avocet

Recurvirostra avosetta

Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Stilts and Avocets
Pied Avocet, photographed by El Golli Mohamed

Photo: El Golli Mohamed · Wikimedia · CC-BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

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About the Pied Avocet

Striking and essentially unmistakable, with elegant shape, boldly pied plumage, long bluish-gray legs, and long, slender, upcurved bill. Curve is stronger on female. Usually breeds in small colonies; nesting birds call noisily. Nonbreeding flocks locally number in hundreds. Feeds while wading or swimming, sweeping its bill side to side. Most common in coastal wetlands and brackish lagoons and estuaries, but will also appear inland, particularly on or near large lakes.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 129 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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