Red-necked Stint
Calidris ruficollis
NTNear Threatened
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The red-necked stint or rufous-necked stint (Calidris ruficollis) is a small migratory wader that breeds in northeast Russia and spends the non-breeding season along the coastlines of Southeast Asia and Australasia.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds coastal tundra of Taymyr Peninsula eastward to Chukotskiy Peninsula and northern Kamchatka Peninsula (north-central to north-eastern Siberia); breeds coastal northeastern India and Sri Lanka eastward to Philippines, Australasia, and Melanesia.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Continents
Countries
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Denmark
- Fiji
- Germany
- Guam
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Malaysia
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Norfolk Island
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Russia
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- United States
- Vietnam
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Red-necked 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.
