8 Little Stint Calidris minuta

1 Kentish Plover> / 2 Hudsonian Whimbrel> / 3 Hudsonian Dunlin>  / 4 Interesting Wader> / 5 Knots>  / 6 Baltic Dunlin> / 7 Sanderlings Calidris alba in a storm> / 7A Sanderlings ready to fly home> / 8 Little Stint Calidris minuta> / 9 Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis>  / 10 Dunlin Calidris alpina in juvenile plumage> / 11 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus> / 12 Golden Plover> / 13 Cannibalism in the cold> / 14 A plumage for all seasons> / 15 American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica> / 16 Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva> / 17 European Curlew Numenius a.arquata> / 18 Eastern or Russian Curlew Numenius a.orientalis> / 19 Steppe Curlews Numenius arquata suschkini> / 20a Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia> / 20b Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia> /  21 The Greenland ringed plover> / 22 The Ringed plover> / SNIPES>

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Little Stint Calidris minuta

As the main route during spring migration from Africa, where this
small wader stays during winter, to the northern tundra's,where it
breeds, leads over the middle of the Mediterranean and farther east  
only small numbers reach the North Sea coast in May. They arrive in
breeding plumage which they obtained during a partial moult in Africa.

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Little Stint Calidris minuta 02052008a Slikken van Flakkee, The Netherlands

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Little Stint Calidris minuta 02052008b Slikken van Flakkee, The Netherlands

        10 jun 2010