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Little stint
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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.[2]
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Little stint | |
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Non-breeding adult in Egypt | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Scolopacidae |
Genus: | Calidris |
Species: | C. minuta |
Binomial name | |
Calidris minuta (Leisler, 1812) | |
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Range of C. minuta Breeding Passage Non-breeding Vagrant (seasonality uncertain) | |
Synonyms | |
Erolia minuta |
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