The little stint 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
Little stint (on the left) and dunlin in September at the mouth of the Reda river in Puck Bay in Poland. Both birds are juveniles.
Little stint, non breeding in February, Vasai, Maharashtra, India.
Mixed flock with the larger Terek sandpiper in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Scolopacidae is a large family of shorebirds, or waders, which mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews, and snipes. Most of these species eat small
White-rumped sandpiper nest with four eggs
The least sandpiper is the smallest species of sandpiper
Sandpipers spending the non-breeding season in Roebuck Bay, Western Australia