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Calidris ruficollis (Red-necked
stint)
Rooinekstrandloper [Afrikaans]; Roodkeelstrandloper
[Dutch]; Bécasseau à col roux [French]; Rotkehl-strandläufer [German];
Pilrito-de-nuca-vermelha [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
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Red-necked stint in non-breeding plumage,
Burnett's Head, Australia. [photo
Tony Morris
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Red-necked stint in breeding plumage,
Taiwan. [photo Chih
Yuan Pan ©] |
Distribution and habitat
Breeds in northern and north-eastern Siberia, marginally
extending into Alaska, heading south in the non-breeding season to south-eastern
China, eastern India, Australia and New Zealand. It is a rare vagrant to
southern Africa, with several records along the coast of South Africa and
southern Mozambique, with two isolated records in the North-West Province and
north central Namibia respectively. It generally prefers muddy bays, estuaries,
sewage works, degraded salt-marshes, farm dams and commercial salt pans.
Food
It does most of its foraging on mudflats or pan margins,
pecking and probing in search of food.
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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