Sunday, July 2, 2017

LITTLE STINT

Photographed at Stockyard Point, Victoria, June 2017
1140                  LITTLE STINT              Calidris minuta

AUSTRALIA              109

Found on tidal mudflats, salt marshes, salt fields, muddy margins of freshwater and saline wetlands, sewerage ponds. 12-14 cm. Breeds in Arctic Eurasia; winters Europe, s Asia; vagrant Japan, Brunei, PNG. Summer vagrant to Australia, records NT, SA, Vic and NSW.





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