BirdUp · Species
Red-necked Stint
Calidris ruficollis(Pallas, 1776)
Near ThreatenedNative
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Calidris
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The red-necked stint or rufous-necked stint is a small migratory wader that breeds in northeast Russia and spends the non-breeding season along the coastlines of Southeast Asia and Australasia.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Coastal low Arctic to subarctic tundra of north-central and north-east Siberia: Taymyr Pen. (north-central Siberia) east to Chukotskiy Pen. and south to north Kamchatka Pen. (north-east Russia)
- Non-breeding range
- OR, AU : coastal north-east India and Sri Lanka through south-east Asia, Indonesian Arch., New Guinea, Australia, Melanesia from Bismarck Arch. to New Caledonia, New Zealand, Philippines to Ryukyu Is. (=Nansei Shoto, south Japan)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
4 photos
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