Last week’s showers might not have been forceful enough to break lake bunds, but the fragile nests of Black winged stilts in wetlands are an altogether different matter. At the onset of summer ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday said the Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a PSA Airlines CRJ700 airliner on Jan. 29, killing 67, was flying too high.

At some distance another bird -- a black-winged stilt -- sips water, its leg awkwardly placed and incapable of motion. These birds appear to be affected by a kind of paralysis, clear symptoms of ...

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Today’s featured bird is the black-necked stilt, a delicate little waterbird with extremely long legs that’s famous for its popcorn.The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) is known as the ...

Dr Sathiya Selvam, head of Wetlands and Flyways programme at BNHS (Bombay Natural History Society) says, “Birds like black-winged stilts are biological indicators. If they are declining ...

Stilts, on the other hand, have an almost regal bearing that accentuates their “tuxedo” attire of black and white. Their movements are spare and graceful and precise. There are five species of ...

Four black-winged stilt chicks have recently fledged in Worth Marshes, near Sandwich, after a pair of the birds arrived from Africa in the spring. It is believed the species is flying further ...

A nature reserve in Lincolnshire is celebrating the arrival of four black-winged stilt chicks - the first time the species has bred in the county. The pair at RSPB Frampton Marsh hatched all of ...

The black-winged stilt is among the avian paragons of this virtue, the male and the female functioning in tandem, taking the cue and slipping into a nesting role without any prodding. These images ...