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 Monfragüe National Park
Ruff
Calidris pugnax
Dunlin
Calidris alpina
Curlew Sandpiper
Calidris ferruginea
Temminck's Stint
Calidris temminckii
Sanderling
Calidris alba
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropus
Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinago
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Common Greenshank
Tringa nebularia
Jack Snipe
Lymnocryptes minimus
Common Redshank
Tringa totanus
Spotted Redshank
Tringa erythropus
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Little Stint at Monfragüe 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