LONG-TOED STINT

Photographed at Werribee Wetlands, Victoria, February 2015

498          LONG-TOED STINT            Calidris subminuta

Australia         (339)

13-15 cm. breeds in Siberia to far N. Pacic: migrates to s. and se. Asia; PNG; Regular but uncommon visitor to inland and coastal Aust.; range is coastal WA, except south from about Esperance; most of NT except sw corner; w. half of Q; most of SA except w.; most NSW except ne. corner; and a;ll Victoria. Found tussocky, weedy margins of shallow wetlands, coastal and inland, sewerage ponds, weed on tidelines, tidal mudflats.