Little stint: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the little stint lives – recorded in 77 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Calidris minuta
Group	Waders, gulls, terns & auks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	77 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania
Mass	6.3 g (birth weight); 24 g (male organism, adult weight); 27.1 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Scolopacidae

Where does the little stint live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the little stint in 77 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa, South America, Burkina Faso.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a little stint?

Wikidata records the following for the little stint: mass 6.3 g (birth weight); 24 g (male organism, adult weight); 27.1 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the little stint endangered?

The little stint’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the little stint?

The little stint (Calidris minuta) is a bird in the order Charadriiformes and the family Scolopacidae, genus Calidris. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the little stint

The little stint (Calidris 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.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Little stint (revision 1368621494), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q27232 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).