Breeding adult © Marco Valentini eBird S63956442 Macaulay Library ML 206390961
Nonbreeding adult © Daryl Dell
Breeding adult © Franklin Haas
Juvenile © Ricardo Rodríguez
Juvenile © Samuele Ramellini
+ 3
Nonbreeding adult (with Little Stint) © Daniel Melamed
© Chi-Hsuan Shao

Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii

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Identification

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Breeds on wet moorland mainly in Scandinavia and Russia; migrants occur in wide variety of wetland habitats across Africa and southern Asia. Found mainly as singles or small groups, locally in flocks. Often keeps apart from other shorebirds, feeding quietly at marshy and muddy edges in or adjacent to cover. Note very small size, rather plain plumage (limited bright marks on back of breeding adults), greenish-yellow legs. In flight, sides of tail flash bright white, unlike grayish of Little Stint.

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