red-necked stint
calidris ruficollis latin

Flocks of up to 50 Red-necked Stints are present in summer.

It supports internationally significant numbers (up to over 6,000 individuals) of Red-necked Stint.

A previous paper details four early claims of Red-necked Stint, none of which were acceptable.

It provides foraging habitat for Red-necked Stints.

The Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) is a small migratory wader.

The surrounding mudflats are important for waders, especially Red-necked Stints and Sanderlings.

It sometimes holds internationally significant numbers of Red-necked Stints and Banded Stilts.

The Red-necked Stint's small size, fine dark bill, dark legs and quicker movements distinguish this species from all waders except the other dark-legged stints.

Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis)

This island is a natural habitat for many birds, like the great knot, red-necked stint, dunlin, whimbrel, bar-tailed godwit and the common sandpiper.

The Red-necked Stint migrates from Siberia every year and most of the birds, which do that, find themselves in Ralphs Bay.

Some of the wildlife includes a variety of birds, such as Plovers, Ruddy Turnstone and Red-necked Stint.

Other birds using the site in relatively large numbers include Black Swans, Curlew Sandpipers and Red-necked Stints.

Wader species using the site in large numbers include Black-tailed Godwits, Lesser Sand Plovers and Red-necked Stints.

The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an IBA because it supports over 1% of the world population of Red-necked Stints.

The site regularly supports over 1% of the world populations of Red-necked Stints and Sharp-tailed Sandpipers, as well as a population of the range-restricted Dusky Gerygone.

Red-necked Stints are highly gregarious, and will form flocks with other small Calidris waders, such as Sharp-tailed Sandpipers and Curlew Sandpipers in their non-breeding areas.

Red-necked Stints use the IBA in substantial numbers, while other birds regularly recorded include Curlew Sandpipers, Sooty Oystercatchers and Little Terns.

They were classified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because they support more than 1% of the world populations of Red-necked Stint, Chestnut Teal and Pacific Gull.

In any case, among the stint clade the Red-necked Stint ("C." ruficollis) and the Long-toed Stint ("C." subminuta) are particularly close relatives of the Pectoral Sandpiper.

They regularly support over 1% of the world populations of the Red-capped Plover and Red-necked Stint and similarly support the Oriental Plover and Sharp-tailed Sandpiper occasionally.

The island also supports over 1% of the world populations of Grey-tailed Tattler, Red-necked Stint, Pied Oystercatcher and Fairy Tern, as well as an isolated population of the Spinifexbird.

Other birds recorded using the lake are Banded Stilts, Red-necked Avocets, Red-necked Stints, Red-capped Plovers, Sharp-tailed Sandpipers and Hooded Plovers.

The Faure and Pelican Islands (Shark Bay) IBA supports breeding colonies of Fairy Terns and over 1% of the world populations of Red-necked Stint and Pied Oystercatcher.

Other waterbirds using the floodplain and the mudflats of the bay in relatively large numbers include Little Pied Cormorants, Great Egrets, Black-tailed Godwits, Red-necked Stints, Magpie Geese and whistling ducks.