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.

TEMMINCK’S STINT

Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017

1022               TEMMINCK’S STINT              Calidris temminckii    

NEPAL           95

Favours vegetated freshwater habitats: marshes, pools, lakes, wet fields and riverbanks. 13-15 cm. Fairly common winter visitor and passage migrant.

RED-NECKED STINTS

Photographed on salt farms, north-west Bali, October 2016

(see  212)              RED-NECKED STINT                   Calidris ruficollis 

INDONESIA (Bali)         (65)        

Most numerous of the small sandpipers in Indonesia; strictly coastal during migration, when found on mudflats near mangroves and sandblast at the mouth of estuaries. 15 cms. Breeds in northeastern Siberia;migrates south reaching New Zealand;widespread, common passage migrant and winter visitor throughout Indonesia.

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.

RED-NECKED STINT

212    RED-NECKED STINT              Calidris ruficollis

Australia            (212)

13-16 cm. Ranges over most of Australia except driest central WA, s. of NT and n. of SA. It breeds in the Arctic, Siberia and n. Alaska. Found on tidal mudflats, salt marshes, beaches, wetlands and sewerage ponds.