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The Spur-winged Lapwing or Spur-winged Plover (Vanellus spinosus) is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae. It breeds around the eastern Mediterranean, and in ...

Least Sandpiper

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The Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) is the smallest shorebird. Their breeding habitat is the northern North American continent on tundra or in bogs.

White-rumped Sandpiper

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The White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) is a small shorebird. Their breeding habitat is the northern tundra on Arctic islands in Canada and Alaska.

Temminck's Stint

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Temminck's Stint, Calidris or Erolia temminckii, is a small wader. This stint's breeding habitat is bogs and marshes in the taiga of Arctic northern Europe and Asia.

Little Stint

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The Little Stint, Calidris minuta (or Erolia minuta), is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia.

Long-toed Stint

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The Long-toed Stint, Calidris or Erolia subminuta, is a small wader bird. It breeds across northern Asia and is strongly migratory, wintering in south and south east Asia and Australasia.

Red-necked Stint

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The Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) is a small migratory wader. Red-necked Stints are strongly migratory, breeding along the Arctic littoral of eastern Eurasia and spending the non-breedng ...