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Pied Avocet
Recurvirostra avosetta
species of Recurvirostridae


img. 911 ad. © Felix Hursie

img. 429 © Alexander Haase
2nd cy
#2511
2nd cy
#3982

mai 2012
feather number longest
primary 10 per wing 151.5 - 176.0mm n=6
P9 (83%) P7 (17%)
secondary 18-19 per wing 107.0 - 120.5mm n=6
S14 (50%) S16 (17%) S15 (33%)
retrix 12
83.0 - 99.0mm n=6
R6 (67%) R1 (33%)
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immat.
#4841
#5939
Ostfriesland
ad.
#898
juv.
#899
juv.
#9674
St. Ändrä am Zicksee, Bgld.
18.07.2021

country allocations

native

Afghanistan · Albania · Algeria · Angola · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Belgium · Bhutan · Botswana · Bulgaria · Burkina Faso · Cameroon · Chad · China · Croatia · Cyprus · Czechia · Denmark · Djibouti · Egypt · Eritrea · Estonia · Eswatini · Ethiopia · France · Gambia · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Hungary · India · Iran, Islamic Republic of · Iraq · Israel · Italy · Jordan · Kazakhstan · Kenya · Kuwait · Kyrgyzstan · Lebanon · Lesotho · Libya · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Moldova, Republic of · Mongolia · Montenegro · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Namibia · Netherlands · Niger · Nigeria · North Macedonia · Norway · Oman · Pakistan · Palestine, State of · Poland · Portugal · Qatar · Romania · Russian Federation · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Serbia · Sierra Leone · Slovakia · Slovenia · Somalia · South Africa · South Sudan · Spain · Sri Lanka · Sudan · Sweden · Switzerland · Syrian Arab Republic · Tajikistan · Tanzania, United Republic of · Tunisia · Türkiye · Uganda · Ukraine · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Uzbekistan · Western Sahara · Yemen · Zambia · Zimbabwe ·

regionally extinct

Turkmenistan ·

vagrant

Benin · Burundi · Central African Republic · Congo, The Democratic Republic of the · Faroe Islands · Finland · Gibraltar · Iceland · Latvia · Liberia · Luxembourg · Madagascar · Rwanda ·

Charadriiformes
Waders, gulls and auks

conservation status

  • CITES
    not listed
  • Regulation (EG) Nr. 865/2006
    not listed
  • German Federal Nature Conservation Act §44
    strictly protected