La historia
I made this photo of a Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) at Reserva Natural Hato Berlín in Trinidad, Casanare, Colombia. The Black-necked Stilt is a locally abundant shorebird of wetlands and coastlines, including seasonally flooded wetlands. Its downy young are light olive brown with rows of black speckles. Hato Berlín is a civil-society nature reserve on the Casanare savanna, about 10 km from Trinidad, where capybaras, caimans, turtles, monkeys and savanna and marsh birds can be seen. IUCN includes the Black-necked Stilt in its assessment of Himantopus himantopus, which it lists as Least Concern, with a stable population.
I used a Pentax K-1 with the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6 for this one, at 1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100. The Safari Llanero at Hato Berlín lets visitors watch and photograph wildlife in its habitat and share the culture and food of the people who live there.
©2019 Adam Rainoff Photographer
El ave
The Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) pertenece a la familia Recurvirostridae (Stilts and Avocets) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2025), with the population trend listed as stable. IUCN does not yet assess the Black-necked Stilt separately; this is the assessment of Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus), which IUCN treats as including it. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
