Long-toed Stint

Calidris subminuta(Middendorff, 1853)

Native

Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Calidris

Commonness: Very common
Best seen: Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The long-toed stint is a small wader. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific subminuta is from Latin sub, "near to" and minuta, "small" from its similarity to the little stint, Calidris minuta.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range: Subarctic to temperate bogs of central and east Palearctic: disjunctly from south-west to south Chukotskiy Pen., north Kuril and Commander is. (east Russia); (perhaps) north Mongolia
Non-breeding range: OR, AU : inland and coastal east India and Sri Lanka, south-east Asia, Indonesian Arch., west and south-east Australia, Philippines, south-east China, Taiwan and south and south-central Japan

03 · When