Pied Avocet. Шилоклювка. Recurvirostra avosetta.

Voice. Feeding behavior. Azerbaijan. Ag-Gel National Park. July 14, 2014. The pied avocet is a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. They breed in temperate Europe and western and Central Asia. It is a migratory species and most winter in Africa or southern Asia. Some remain to winter in the mildest parts of their range, for example in southern Spain and southern England. The pied avocet is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of A