What is the difference between a sandpiper and a Sanderling?

Are there spotted sandpipers in the UK?

Importantly, this is not just a book about Common Sandpipers in the UK. It is also about the Spotted Sandpiper, the ecologically similar North American species that curiously has a very different breeding system.

How to identify Temminck’s stint?

Structure and Behavior Temminck’s Stint is the most distinc- tive of all the peeps, and is therefore usu- ally comparatively easy to identify. It has a crouching, horizontal posture, with an elongated silhouette suggestive of a Baird’s Sandpiper.

What kind of bird is Temminck’s stint?

Temminck’s stint ( Calidris temminckii) is a small wader. This bird’s common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. Temminck’s stint is one…

Where do Temminck’s stint live?

Temminck’s Stint – eBird Breeds on wet moorland mainly in Scandinavia and Russia; migrants occur in wide variety of wetland habitats across Africa and southern Asia. Found mainly as singles or small groups, locally in flocks.

What does the Temminck stint sound like in flight?

The Temminck’s Stint in flight gives distinctive, rapid stuttering “tirrr” often repeated, or more prolonged “tirrr-r-r”. During the displays, it utters a rhythmic, rising and falling, continuous trilling “kilililililili…” or “sirrrrrr…” often sustained for several minutes. BEHAVIOUR IN THE WILD:

What does a Temminck’s stint look like?

Temminck’s Stint: China Markings on the upperparts are variable, some birds are brighter, and better marked, than others. Note the pale legs, on this bird quite yellowish, plus the greyish-brown breast ( photo: Juanli Sun ). Temminck’s Stints breed mainly in the tundra zone from Scandinavia eastwards to eastern Siberia.

What is the mating strategy of Temminck’s stint?

The mating strategy of Temminck’s Stint is unusual, as the female will mate with a first male who incubates the clutch, leaving her free to mate with a second male; she then incubates those eggs herself. The first male will also mate again; this female will lay a clutch and incubate it, leaving the male to incubate the eggs from the first female.

What is Temminck’s stint?

The Temminck’s Stint is a tiny, short-legged wader with horizontal look and long tail with white outer rectrices. It breeds on tundra in the northernmost regions of Eurasia, and winters in tropical Africa and S Asia.

What is the scientific name for Temminck?

This bird’s common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.

Where does the Temminck’s stint live?

The Temminck’s Stint breeds on tundra, but it avoids the severe Arctic conditions by choosing more sheltered areas, often on woodland fringes, sometimes around human habitations. It frequents floodplains in forest tundra, and can be seen up to 1200 metres of elevation.

What does the Temminck’s stint sound like?

The Temminck’s Stint in flight gives distinctive, rapid stuttering “tirrr” often repeated, or more prolonged “tirrr-r-r”. During the displays, it utters a rhythmic, rising and falling, continuous trilling “kilililililili…” or “sirrrrrr…” often sustained for several minutes.

What does a Cornell Lab sapsucker look like?

Note very small size, rather plain plumage (limited bright marks on back of breeding adults), greenish-yellow legs. In flight, sides of tail flash bright white, unlike grayish of Little Stint. Skip to content Cornell Lab sapsucker logo

Where can I find a Temminck’s stint?

The species is most frequent in England, where it is found mainly in coastal counties from Norfolk to Hampshire. Individual birds are normally seen, or maybe a couple, but occasional larger parties have been logged in Norfolk in May. Temminck’s Stint is rare but annual in Scotland.

How often do Temminck’s stints breed?

In recent decades there has been an average of about 100 records per year, with about 70 of these in spring. Temminck’s Stint first bred in Scotland in 1934, though unsuccessfully, and further attempts in the 1930s and 1960s also failed. Displaying birds were seen at several sites in 1969 and breeding was confirmed in 1971.

Where do Temminck’s stints live?

Temminck’s stint is strongly migratory, wintering at freshwater sites in tropical Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia . Temminck’s stints have an intriguing breeding and parental care system in which males and female parents incubate separate clutches, typically in different locations.

Where did the Temminck bird get its name?

This bird’s common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch aristocrat and zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. female – Doi Ang Khang Mountain – Thailand.

What does Temminck’s sunbird stand for?

Temminck’s sunbird ( Aethopyga temminckii) is a species of sunbird. It is found in up to 1800 m altitude in Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, and south west Thailand in tropical moist montane forests . This bird’s common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch aristocrat and zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.

Where does the Temminck live?

It is found in up to 1800 m altitude in Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, and south west Thailand in tropical moist montane forests . This bird’s common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch aristocrat and zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.

What is Temminck’s stint?

Temminck’s stint ( Calidris temminckii) is a small wader. This bird’s common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.

How can you tell the difference between Temminck’s stint and Lincs?

Legs are pale, unlike the dark legs of Little Stint, and vary from yellowish to brownish. Temminck’s Stint: Lincs The thin eye-ring is evident in the greyish head; although there are rufous-edged feathers on the upperparts birds never appear as bright as the superficially similar Little Stint ( photo: Graham Catley ).

What is Temminck’s sunbird?

Temminck’s sunbird ( Aethopyga temminckii) is a species of sunbird. It is found in up to 1800 m altitude in Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, and south west Thailand in tropical moist montane forests .

Where do Temminck pheasants live?

Temminck’s are notoriously shy birds and unlike most pheasants they prefer to nest in trees. This species of tragopan is named after the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Native across South Asia, from southwest China to northwest regions of Burma and Vietnam.