Archive for the ‘Stints’ Category

• Red-necked stint

  Aug 21 | Sandpipers+, Stints | Little Stint | 1720 Views | with No Comments

  The Red-necked stint – Calidris ruficollis is a very small migratory wader of the family Scolopacidae. It is a High Arctic summer breeder and migrates to SE Asia and Australasia in the winter. In the AWB Region is only an...

• Long-toed stint

  Aug 19 | Sandpipers+, Stints | Little Stint | 1719 Views | with No Comments

  The Long-toed stint – Calidris subminuta is a small wader of the family Scolopacidae. It is patchily distributed over N Asia as a summer breeder and migrates S for the winter to SE Asia and Australia. It is only an...

• Temminck’s stint

  Aug 19 | Sandpipers+, Stints | Little Stint | 1752 Views | with No Comments

  The Temminck’s stint – Calidris temminckii is a small wader of the family Scolopacidea. It is a summer breeder to the bogs and marshes of the Taiga of Eurasia. It is strongly migratory to winter in the Tropics of...

• Little Stint

  Aug 10 | Sandpipers+, Stints | Little Stint | 1717 Views | with No Comments

  The Little Stint – Calidris minuta, is a very small wader of the family Scolopacidae. It breeds in the High Arctic Region of Europe and Asia and is a long distance migrant to Africa and South Asia, mostly India. In the AWB...