Sandpipers, Snipes

Little Stint

Calidris minuta

The Little Stint (Calidris minuta) is a 21 g grassland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It migrates.

Family

Sandpipers, Snipes

Order

Charadriiformes

Weight

21 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

97

Recorded in Sweden, India, Spain, South Africa, Denmark, Norway, France, Israel, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Finland, Netherlands, Greece, Kenya, Turkey, Belgium, Russia, Namibia, Germany, Tanzania, Poland, Sri Lanka, Oman, Italy, United States, Cyprus, Estonia, Kuwait, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Senegal, Iran, Austria, Egypt, Ukraine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Czechia, Georgia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kazakhstan, Botswana, Uganda, Thailand, Hungary, China, Qatar, Ireland, Mongolia, Switzerland, Zambia, Bangladesh, Croatia, Pakistan, Australia, Tunisia, Slovenia, Gambia, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Jordan, Mauritania, Ghana, Malta, Belarus, Cabo Verde, Bahrain, Uzbekistan, Djibouti, Japan, Hong Kong, Albania, Malaysia, Slovakia, Sudan, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Armenia, Canada, Lithuania, Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, eSwatini, Angola, Montenegro, Palestine, Malawi, Moldova, Yemen, Libya, Latvia.

Where to see it: Wadi Sassou (Libya); South of fish market (Mauritania); Zone Humide de Lacacão (Republic of Cabo Verde); North Nouakchott waste water site (Mauritania); Qasr Ahmed (Libya).

Photo: (c) Mourad Harzallah, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist