page_title: List of birds of Namibia
section_title: Stilts and avocets
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Namibia / Stilts and avocets
caption_attribution_description: Bird, White-headed Stilt, Himantopus leucocephalus
context_page_description: This is a list of the bird species recorded in Namibia. The avifauna of Namibia included a total of 699 confirmed species as of May 2020, of which one is endemic, 83 are rare or vagrants, and four have been introduced by humans. One additional species is hypothetical as defined below. Unless otherwise noted, the list is that of iGoTerra.
  This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature are those of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2019 edition. Differences in common and scientific names between the Clements taxonomy and that of the NBRC are frequent but are seldom noted here.
  The following tags have been used to highlight several categories of occurrence.
  (V) Vagrant - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Namibia
  Endemic - a species endemic to Namibia
  (I) Introduced - a species introduced to Namibia as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions, and which has a self-sustaining population
  Hypothetical - a species possibly present but which has not been documented
context_section_description: Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Recurvirostridae
  Recurvirostridae is a family of large wading birds which includes the avocets and stilts. The avocets have long legs and long up-curved bills. The stilts have extremely long legs and long, thin, straight bills.
  Black-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus
  Pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta
caption: Black-winged stilt
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