Little Stint

Little Stint

Taxobox
name = Little Stint
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
status_ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=49077|title=Calidris minuta|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern]


image_width = 200px
image_caption = Adult in late summer
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Charadriiformes
familia = Scolopacidae
genus = "Calidris"
species = "C. minuta"
binomial = "Calidris minuta"
binomial_authority = Leisler, 1812
subdivision_ranks = Synonyms
subdivision ="Erolia minuta"

The Little Stint, "Calidris" or "Erolia minuta", is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America and to Australia. It is gregarious in winter, sometimes forming large flocks with other "Calidris" waders, particularly Dunlin, on coastal mudflats or the edges of inland pools.

The numbers of this species, and of Curlew Sandpiper depend on the population of lemmings. In poor lemming years, predatory species such as skuas and Snowy Owls will take Arctic breeding waders instead.

Its small size, fine dark bill, dark legs and quicker movements distinguish this species from all waders except the other dark-legged stints. It can be distinguished from these in all plumages by its combination of a fine bill tip, unwebbed toes and long primary projection. The call is a sharp "stit",

The breeding adult has an orange wash to the breast, a white throat and a strong white v on its back. In winter plumage identification is difficult. Juveniles have pale crown stripes and a pinkish breast.

This bird nests on a bare ground scrape laying 3-5 eggs. It is polygamous, and male and female may incubate separate clutches.

Food is small invertebrates picked off the mud.

The Little Stint is one of the species to which the "Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds" (AEWA) applies.

An apparent hybrid between this species and Temminck's Stint has been reported from The Netherlands. [Jonsson, Lars (1996): Mystery stint at Groote Keeten: First known hybrid between Little and Temminck's Stint? "Dutch Birding" 18: 24-28.]

References

Further reading

Identification

* Jonsson, Lars & Peter J. Grant (1984) Identification of stints and peeps "British Birds" 77(7):293-315

External links

* [http://www.oiseaux.net/birds/photos/little.stint.html Oiseaux] Photos
* [http://www.ibercajalav.net/img/184_LittleStintCminuta.pdf Ageing and sexing (PDF) by Javier Blasco-Zumeta]
* [http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/species.jsp?lang=EN&id=DC89F10D62FE9858&ts=1220274657442&sec=summary Avibase]


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