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Releasing black stilts

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Releasing black stilts

Children from Twizel school release young black stilts reared in captivity. The birds are large enough to fend for themselves, but have yet to change into their pure black adult plumage.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 10 September 2005, p. 19

by Sally Rae

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Gerard Hutching, Wading birds – Stilts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9162/releasing-black-stilts (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gerard Hutching, published 2 March 2009.