{"id":33793,"date":"2015-08-30T05:35:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T11:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=33793"},"modified":"2015-08-30T05:35:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T11:35:15","slug":"black-necked-stilt-eating-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/30\/black-necked-stilt-eating-a-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-necked Stilt Eating A Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"

The diet of Black-necked Stilts consists primarily of\u00a0aquatic invertebrates but they’re also known to take the occasional small fish.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/strong> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve known for some time that stilts will\u00a0consume the occasional fish but I’d never been able to document\u00a0one doing so until I photographed this\u00a0bird a couple of weeks ago at Bear River MBR. One dietary study of the species found that only 3.2% (by weight) of their stomach contents consisted of\u00a0fish so it apparently doesn’t happen very often.<\/p>\n

It’s my guess that the small size of the gape is one of the reasons\u00a0stilts eat so few fish and\u00a0when they do\u00a0the fish are very small.<\/p>\n

Long ago I also photographed an American Avocet eating a fish<\/a>.\u00a0 The two species are similar in many ways and that includes their diets so given my fondness for photographing somewhat unusual behaviors I’m happy to have been able to document fish-eating in both species.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The diet of Black-necked Stilts consists primarily of aquatic invertebrates but they’re also known to take the occasional small fish.<\/p>\n

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