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Put a ring on it: banded stilts have been tracked for the first time. Photo: Ben Parkhurst Put a ring on it: banded stilts have been tracked for the first time. Photo: Ben Parkhurst Banded stilts ...

Desert water bird sounds like an oxymoron. But some species, including the Australian banded stilt, make this peculiar lifestyle work. The stilt—which has the posture of a flamingo, the palate of a ...

A desert waterbird almost sounds like an oxymoron. And it’s true, waterbirds living in arid landscapes face the decidedly difficult task of finding rich, yet short-lived pulses of resources in vast ...

Thousands of birds have abandoned wetlands on Western Australia's coastline and flocked to the Goldfields, following heavy rain in the region. A large number of banded stilts, which are a small ...

Nomadic birds Satellite tracking of Australian banded stilts reveals they fly massive distances at fast speeds after 'sniffing out' inland desert lakes, making them one of the fastest of the nomadic ...