Temminck's stint: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Temminck's stint lives – recorded in 47 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Calidris temminckii
Group	Waders, gulls, terns & auks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	47 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe, North America
Mass	5.8 g (birth weight); 24.3 g (male organism, adult weight); 27.8 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Scolopacidae

Where does the Temminck's stint live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Temminck's stint in 47 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa, 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 Temminck's stint?

Wikidata records the following for the Temminck's stint: mass 5.8 g (birth weight); 24.3 g (male organism, adult weight); 27.8 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the Temminck's stint endangered?

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

What kind of animal is the Temminck's stint?

The Temminck's stint (Calidris temminckii) is a bird in the order Charadriiformes and the family Scolopacidae, genus Calidris. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Temminck's stint

Temminck's stint (Calidris temminckii) is a small wader native to the Old World. This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.

Within the genus Calidris, Temminck's stint is most closely related to the long-toed stint (Calidris subminuta).

Temminck's stint is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Temminck's stint (revision 1358627880), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q58921 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).