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Red-necked Stint

Calidris ruficollis

Near Threatened (IUCN Red List)Sandpipers and Allies
Red-necked Stint, photographed by Johnny

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About the Red-necked Stint

A very small shorebird of both inland and coastal wetlands and estuaries. Breeding adult has vivid orange head bordered by dark stippling (no dark markings internal to the orange, unlike Little Stint) and bright orange and gold tones in upperwing coverts. Nonbreeding adult gray above, pale below; juvenile similar but richer gray-brown above with neat pale feather edges in upperparts. Flight call a high-pitched, raspy “krreeet.”

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 66 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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