Black stilts frequently breed with pied stilts, possibly because, being scarce, they cannot easily find an available mate of the same species. Hybrids are only half as likely to survive as chicks resulting from intra-species mating.
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Department of Conservation
Reference:
10035966
Photograph by Dave Murray
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