Little Stint
Calidris minuta
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderCharadriiformes (Caradriformes)
- FamilyScolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies)
- GenusCalidris (Calidris Sandpipers)
- SpeciesCalidris minuta (Little Stint)
The little stint (Calidris 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. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Minneriya National Park
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
Marsh Sandpiper
Tringa stagnatilis
Pin-tailed Snipe
Gallinago stenura
Common Greenshank
Tringa nebularia
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropus
Red-wattled Lapwing
Vanellus indicus
Black-winged Stilt
Himantopus himantopus
Whiskered Tern
Chlidonias hybrida
Great Thick-knee
Esacus recurvirostris
Indian Thick-knee
Burhinus indicus
Barred Buttonquail
Turnix suscitator
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Little Stint at Minneriya National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there