[TN-Bird] South American Black-necked Stilt subspecies melanurus at Memphis, TN

June 10, 2008
Ensley Bottoms
Waste Water Treatment Plant
Memphis, TN
 
Black-necked Stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) have been nesting at Ensley  
Bottoms, in Memphis since the spring of 1982 when I found the first young  
hatching 
one hot July day. 

At the following site  there are photos of a female Black-necked Stilt of the 
South American subspecies  "melanurus" which breeds from Brazil and Peru, 
south. The northern subspecies  "mexicanus" breeds in North America south to 
northern Brazil and Peru and  occasionally interbreeds with "melanurus". This 
bird 
appears to be a female  "melanurus" and is paired and presently tending a 
nest with a "mexicanus" male.  It will be interesting to see what the chicks 
look 
like:o) 

There is  something in the water in Memphis, so far we have successful 
nesting's of paired  Scissor-tail FC and Western Flycatchers, Hybrid Mourning 
Doves 
X Eurasian  Collared-Doves and earlier this year an Avocet courting a female 
Black-necked  Stilt.  

Try: _http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/melanurus_ 
(http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/melanurus) 

 
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.



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