Little stint

Little stint
Non-breeding adult in Egypt
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Calidris
Species:
C. minuta
Binomial name
Calidris minuta
(Leisler, 1812)
Range of C. minuta
  Breeding
  Passage
  Non-breeding
  Vagrant (seasonality uncertain)
Synonyms

Erolia minuta

Little stint (on the left) and dunlin in the mouth of the Reda river in Puck Bay in Poland.

The little stint (Calidris minuta or Erolia 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.[2]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2019). "Calidris minuta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22693379A138406063. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22693379A138406063.en. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  2. ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 84, 256. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.