BirdUp · Species
Little Stint
Calidris minuta(Leisler, 1812)
Least ConcernVagrant
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Calidris
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The little stint is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America and to Australia. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific minuta is Latin for "small.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- High to low Arctic drier tundra of north Palearctic: far north Scandinavia, White Sea coast, south Novaya Zemlya, through north Russia to New Siberian Is. (east-central Siberia)
- Non-breeding range
- East PAL, AF, India : coastal and inland mudflats and marshes, south Europe, Mediterranean, Africa, west Madagascar, Middle East and central to south Asia
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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