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Red-necked Stint

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Red-necked Stint Behaviour
No observations regarding Red-necked Stint behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Red-necked Stints ...

 


Red-necked Stint, Red-capped Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Greenshank, Pied Oystercatcher, Curlew Sandpiper, Golden Plover, Terek Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler
Michaelmas Key ...

With Red-necked Stint, Manly Marina, SE Queensland, Australia
[edit] References ...

Calidris ruficollis - Red-necked Stint
Calidris minuta - Little Stint
Calidris temminckii - Temminck's Stint
Calidris minutilla - Least Sandpiper (photo)
Calidris bairdii - Baird's Sandpiper
Calidris mauri - Western Sandpiper ...

Red-necked stint (Calidris ruficollis)
Lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus)
Four-spot midget (Mortonagrion hirosei)
Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
Greylag goose (Anser anser)
Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) ...

International birders include four Eurasian sandpipers, called stints, on the peeps roster. The Little Stint and Red-necked Stint are rare visitors to North American shores, ...

Red-necked stint
Numenius madagascariensis. Eastern curlew
Numenius phaeopus. Whimbrel
Numenius minutus. Little whimbrel
Limosa lapponica. Kuaka. Bar-tailed godwit
Limosa limosa. Black-tailed godwit
Limosa haemastica. Hudsonian godwit ...

Individuals are strongly migratory and only mildly gregarious when not breeding. Large flocks are seldom recorded and birds are often either encountered alone or feeding with other waders such as Red-necked Stints or Curlew Sandpipers.

See also: Stint, Sandpiper, Knot, Curlew, Turnstone