Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Little Stint (Calidris minuta) - HBW 3, p. 521
French: Bécasseau minute
German: Zwergstrandläufer
Spanish: Correlimos Menudo
Other common names: Lesser Stint
Taxonomy: Tringa minuta Leisler, 1812, Hanau am Main, Germany.
Formerly placed in genus Erolia. May form superspecies with C. ruficollis. Monotypic.
Distribution: N Scandinavia through S Novaya Zemlya and NW & NC Siberia to New Siberian Is and R Yana. Winters from Mediterranean and Africa through Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf E to Indian Subcontinent and Myanmar; small numbers in SE Britain and Madagascar.
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Close-up of an adult coming back to the nest in the tundra, then incubating Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 5 July 2008 2 years ago 1 min 5 -
Close-up of a nest with eggs from above, then adult coming back and incubating Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 5 July 2008 2 years ago 34 sec 5 -
An arctic fox predating one nest, carrying one egg and burying it in the tundra 05.07.2008 (nouveau) Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 5 July 2008 2 years ago 49 sec 5 -
An adult coming back to the nest in the tundra to warm a chick just born Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 19 July 2008 2 years ago 38 sec 5 -
An adult trying to lure the observer from the nest in the tundra Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 10 July 2008 2 years ago 1 min 3 sec 4.5 -
An adult in breeding plumage bathing and preening in the tundra Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 20 June 2008 2 years ago 1 min 4 sec 4.5
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Locality Herdla, Hordaland County, Norway
Geir Jensen 16 September 2008 6 weeks ago 4.8 -
The bird made a stop during a flight to the south.
Locality Beglitskaya Spit, Neklinovsky District, Rostov Oblast, Western Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Anatoliy Kuzmin 21 September 2011 19 weeks ago 4.4 -
An adult
Locality Cagliari Lagoon, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
raniero massoli-novelli 1 October 2005 1 year ago 3.9 -
a passage bird
Locality Isles of Scilly, England, Great Britain
M P Goodey 1 October 2009 27 weeks ago 3.9 -
Head Shot
Locality Arakhiya Farm, Qatar
John A Thompson 14 March 2010 1 year ago 3.8 -
Correlimos menudos y su reflejo en el Salobrar de Campos (Mallorca)
Locality Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Juan José Bazán Hiraldo 27 August 2010 1 year ago 3.7
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Adult trying to lure the observer from the nest Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia
Laurent Demongin 10 July 2008 2 years ago 2
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