Little Stint
Calidris minuta
Summary 2
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.
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- (c) Lip Kee Yap, μερικά δικαιώματα διατηρούνται (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/64565252@N00/2175570000
- (c) Wikipedia, μερικά δικαιώματα διατηρούνται (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calidris_minuta
