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Calidris subminuta (Long-toed
stint)
Langtoonstrandloper [Afrikaans]; Taigastrandloper [Dutch];
Bécasseau à longs doigts [French]; Langzehen-strandläufer [German];
Pilrito-diminuto [Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) >
Order: Charadriiformes > Family: Scolopacidae
Distribution and habitat
The extent of its breeding grounds is not well understood,
but they are thought to extend discontinuously across Siberia and adjacent
islands. In the non-breeding season it heads to eastern India, the Philippines,
Australia, Indonesian islands, while it is a vagrant to western Europe,
north-western USA and Africa, including southern Africa. Here it has been
sighted four times, at Steynsrus Dam, Eastern Cape in January 1967, Leeupan,
Gauteng in July 1968, Maputo Bay, Mozambique in February 1977 and Lobatse,
Botswane in November 1984. It generally prefers shallow brackish and freshwater
wetlands with bare muddy shores and aquatic vegetation, such as floating mats of
algae.
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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