Long-toed Stint
Calidris subminuta
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The long-toed stint (Calidris subminuta) is a small wader. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific subminuta is from Latin sub, "near to" and minuta, "small" from its similarity to the little stint, Calidris minuta.
Within the genus Calidris the long-toed stint is most closely related to Temminck's stint (Calidris temminckii).
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds subarctic to temperate bogs of disjunctly in Chukotskiy Peninsula, northern Kuril and Commander islands (eastern Russia) and (perhaps) northern Mongolia; winters eastern India and Sri Lanka eastward through southern Asia to southern Japan and southward to southeastern Australia.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Continents
Countries
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Egypt
- Gabon
- Germany
- Guam
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- New Zealand
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oman
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Russia
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- United States
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Long-toed stint
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
