Pied Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta
These ones you can also see here in the wild in marshes, lakes and shoreline. I wonder if they would stay in the icey winter if given the chance to migrate. i think this one is quite Ok with thei ice though.
Seen at Planckendael zoo, on February 2021.
The Pied Avocet, "Recurvirostra avosetta," is a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. They breed in temperate Europe and western and Central Asia. It is a migratory species and most winter in Africa or southern Asia. Some remain to winter in the mildest parts of their range, for example in southern Spain and southern England.
Similar species: Shorebirds And Allies
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Uploaded Dec 10, 2021. Captured Feb 14, 2021 15:20 in Leuvensesteenweg 582, 2812 Mechelen, Belgium.
