Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
échassier à ailes noires
English translation:
black-winged stilt
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Drmanu49
Jan 23, 2014 17:42
10 yrs ago
French term
échassier à ailes noires
French to English
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Zoology
Ornithology
This is from a tourist brochure about the wildlife in the range of volcanoes beyond the Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania.
This name seems a rather odd combination. "A ailes noires" suggests that the authors mean a particular species, but échassiers are wading birds in general. "Black-winged wading bird" or "black-winged wader" is not a species as far as I know. The nearest I can find is the black-winged stilt or the black-winged pratincole. But if those are what they mean, I can't understand why they didn't use their specific names: respectively, Echasse blanche and Glaréole à ailes noires.
Here's the context:
"Le cratère d’Empakaai – 300 mètres de profondeur, six kilomètres de largeur – est occupé sur près de la moitié de sa surface par un très profond lac de soude. Des oiseaux d’eau tels les échassiers à ailes noires, les sarcelles du Cap ou encore les flamants habitent ses berges."
This name seems a rather odd combination. "A ailes noires" suggests that the authors mean a particular species, but échassiers are wading birds in general. "Black-winged wading bird" or "black-winged wader" is not a species as far as I know. The nearest I can find is the black-winged stilt or the black-winged pratincole. But if those are what they mean, I can't understand why they didn't use their specific names: respectively, Echasse blanche and Glaréole à ailes noires.
Here's the context:
"Le cratère d’Empakaai – 300 mètres de profondeur, six kilomètres de largeur – est occupé sur près de la moitié de sa surface par un très profond lac de soude. Des oiseaux d’eau tels les échassiers à ailes noires, les sarcelles du Cap ou encore les flamants habitent ses berges."
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black-winged stilt
http://www.oiseaux.net/oiseaux/echasse.blanche.html is endemic in Tanzania. I would vote for that one.
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4 janv. 2011 - Black winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) - Tanzania 2011.
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4 janv. 2011 - Black winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) - Tanzania 2011.
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Sandra Forsythe
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Discussion
The first thing that came to my mind for un échassier à ailes noires was.... a marabou stork !