Place: Pantano Longarini, Sicily
Date: 26 May 2016.
Place: Saline Ciane, Syracuse, Sicily
Date: 24 May 2016.
[Himantopus himantopus, Family Recurvirostridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-winged stilt]
The sound of the black-winged stilt (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Giuseppe Speranza)
Distribution of the black-winged stilt across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 