Rising Tide Images
Marsh Minnow Meal
Monitoring the incoming tide in a salt marsh, this handsome ae’o searches for fish, arthropods, and invertebrates. Periodically flooded by tides, this type of coastal ecosystem is the favorite habitat of the Hawaiian stilt, a non-migratory, endemic subspecies of the black neck stilt. He successfully plucks a minnow from the shallow edge of the pond with his tweezer-like bill. Though frequently seen in the main Hawaiian archipelago, ae’o, the Hawaiian stilt, is listed as endangered due to loss of habitat and predation by introduced species.
Marsh Minnow Meal
Monitoring the incoming tide in a salt marsh, this handsome ae’o searches for fish, arthropods, and invertebrates. Periodically flooded by tides, this type of coastal ecosystem is the favorite habitat of the Hawaiian stilt, a non-migratory, endemic subspecies of the black neck stilt. He successfully plucks a minnow from the shallow edge of the pond with his tweezer-like bill. Though frequently seen in the main Hawaiian archipelago, ae’o, the Hawaiian stilt, is listed as endangered due to loss of habitat and predation by introduced species.