Long-toed Stint

Calidris subminuta (Middendorff, 1853)

Long-toed Stint, Calidris subminuta, is a sandpiper in the Palearctic and the Oriental Region, with breeding sites in subarctic to temperate bogs across central and eastern parts of the Palearctic, including disjunct areas from south-western to southern Chukotskiy Peninsula, the northern Kuril and Commander Islands, and possibly northern Mongolia. Outside the breeding season it ranges through inland and coastal eastern India and Sri Lanka, south-east Asia, the Indonesian Archipelago, western and south-eastern Australia, the Philippines, south-eastern China, Taiwan and southern to south-central Japan. It is a small wader with yellowish legs and a short, thin dark bill.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Breeding range

Palearctic: subarctic to temperate bogs of c, e Palearctic: disjunctly from sw to s Chukotskiy Pen., n Kuril and Commander is. (e Russia); (perhaps) n Mongolia

Nonbreeding range

Oriental Region, Australasia: inland and coastal e India and Sri Lanka, se Asia, Indonesian Arch., w, se Australia, Philippines, se China, Taiwan and s, sc Japan