Key Identification Features
- Avocets produce three distinct calls: a common call, an excited call, and a broken wing call.
- Males have longer bills that are less curved, while females have shorter bills with more distinct curvature.
- This species has extremely long pink legs, red eyes, a long slender black bill, and distinct all-black plumage in mature adults.
- Juvenile black stilts have white heads, necks, and breasts, a black patch surrounding the eyes, and black belly feathers, a feature that distinguishes them from juvenile pied stilts.
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