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Where does the Little Stint live?

Calidris minuta has 613,171 records in 172 countries and territories, from 1825 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Little Stint
Little Stint — El Golli Mohamed / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeCalidris

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 97,260
India 62,580
Spain 56,256
South Africa 49,238
France 33,644
Denmark 33,298
Norway 32,383
Israel 30,112
United Kingdom 26,221
United Arab Emirates 17,903
Portugal 16,198
Finland 13,306
Netherlands 11,168
Greece 9,463
Kenya 8,567
Türkiye 7,791
Belgium 6,566
Russia 5,627
Namibia 5,307
Germany 5,294
Tanzania 4,717
Poland 4,675
Oman 4,454
Sri Lanka 4,446
Italy 4,377
United States 3,152
Cyprus 2,835
Estonia 2,659
Kuwait 2,405
Bulgaria 2,391
Taiwan 2,316
Senegal 2,255
Iran 2,205
Austria 2,190
Egypt 2,009
Ukraine 1,847
Morocco 1,818
Saudi Arabia 1,648
Romania 1,579
Czechia 1,507

Showing the top 40 of 172 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.