Little Stint
Calidris minuta
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 9,486
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The little stint (Calidris minuta) 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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Little stint”.