#0752 · 🐦 birds

Little Stint

🇳🇱 Kleine Strandloper ·Calidris minuta

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The little stint ( Calidris minuta ) (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. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris , a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific minuta is Latin for "small.

base stats

NL sightings 57iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 14,677iNaturalist observations
weight 27.1 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 57 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
14,677 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 27 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler in 1812 (214 years ago).