BLACK-WINGED STILT
In proportion to its body, the Black-winged Stilt has the longest legs amongst all birds of Europe.
It is one of the most characteristic birds of the Mediterranean Salinas. In Slovenia, it began to breed as late as in the early 1990s – in the Sečovlje Salina, which is still the Black-winged Stilt’s only regular and most significant nest-site in Slovenia. A few dozen pairs breed in salt-fields overgrown by halophytes. In the pans, the Black-winged Stilts can be seen between March and September. Most of them breed in colonies.