Four Hundred Black-Necked Stilts
Four Hundred Black-necked Stilts
As my experience with the Black-necked: Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) as a migrant has been only casual, and with few birds at a time, I was interested to learn from E. H. Glidden, Deputy United States Game Warden and Deputy State Fish and Game Commissioner, whose home is in San Diego, that on August 29, 1930, he saw a flock of Black-necked Stilts which he estimated to contain not-less than 400 individuals. The locality was nine miles northeast of Calexico, Imperial County, California, and the stilts were “feeding on insects” in a recently irrigated field. Mr. Glidden was patrolling at the time, with Deputy State Fish and Game Commissioner R. J. Little, of Banning. The flock of stilts was the largest either of the men had ever seen.
Clinton G. Abbott
San Diego Society of Natural History, Balboa Park, San Diego, California, October 11, 1930
