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.

LITTLE STINT

March 2017

1140            LITTLE STINT                  Calidris minuta

SRI LANKA               172

Found on tidal mudflats, shores of coastal lagoons and tank edges. 13-15 cm. Very common winter migrant mainly to lowland coasts, less in wet zone.