Rising Tide Images
Attentive Ae'o
Happy Nature Photography Day!
Monitoring the incoming tide, this elegant female ae’o searches for fish, arthropods, and various invertebrates in a coastal salt marsh. Periodically flooded by tides, this type of coastal ecosystem is the favorite habitat of Hawaiian stilts. A non-migratory, endemic subspecies of the black neck stilt, it has the second longest legs (after flamingos) relative to body size among birds. Though frequently seen in the main Hawaiian archipelago, the ae’o is listed as endangered due to loss of habitat and predation by introduced species.
Attentive Ae'o
Happy Nature Photography Day!
Monitoring the incoming tide, this elegant female ae’o searches for fish, arthropods, and various invertebrates in a coastal salt marsh. Periodically flooded by tides, this type of coastal ecosystem is the favorite habitat of Hawaiian stilts. A non-migratory, endemic subspecies of the black neck stilt, it has the second longest legs (after flamingos) relative to body size among birds. Though frequently seen in the main Hawaiian archipelago, the ae’o is listed as endangered due to loss of habitat and predation by introduced species.