Snipes, Sandpipers and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)

Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) - HBW 3, p. 522

French: Bécasseau de Temminck German: Temminckstrandläufer Spanish: Correlimos de Temminck

Taxonomy: Tringa Temminckii Leisler, 1812, Hanau am Main, Germany.
Formerly placed in genus Erolia. Monotypic.

Distribution: Scandinavia through NW Russia and N Siberia E to Chukotskiy Peninsula and Anadyrland; irregularly in Britain. Winters from Mediterranean, N tropical Africa and Middle East through Indian Subcontinent and Indochina to S China, Taiwan and S Ryukyu Is, and S to Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo; occasionally to Philippines.