Temminck's Stint

Temminck's Stint
Conservation status: Lower risk (lc)
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Temminck's Stint


Temminck's Stint
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:Scolopacidae
Genus:Calidris
Species:C. temminckii
Binomial name
Calidris temminckii
Leisler, 1812

The Temminck's Stint, Calidris temminckii, is a small wader.

This stint's breeding habitat is bogs and marshes in the taiga of arctic northern Europe and Asia. It will breed in southern Scandinavia and occasionally Scotland. It has a distinctive hovering display flight. It nests in a scrape on the ground, laying 3-4 eggs. Temminck's Stint is strongly migratory, wintering at freshwater sites in tropical Africa and south Asia.

These birds forage in soft mud with some vegetation, mainly picking up food by sight. They have a distinctive mouse-like feeding behaviour, creeping steadily along the edges of pools. They mostly eat insects and other small invertebrates. They not as gregarious as other Calidris waders, and rarely form large flocks.

These birds are very small waders, at 13.5-15cm length similar in size to Little Stint, Calidris minuta. They are shorter legged and longer winged than Little Stint. The legs are yellow, and the outer tail feathers white, in contrast to Little Stint's dark legs and grey outer tail feathers.

This is a rather drab wader, with mainly plain brown upperparts and head, and underparts white apart from a darker breast. The breeding adult has some brighter rufous mantle feathers to relieve the generally still undistinguished appearance. In winter plumage, the general appearance recalls a tiny version of Common Sandpiper. The call is a loud trill.

This bird was named after Coenraad Jacob Temminck, a Dutch naturalist.


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