Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds
A small wader, the Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta), unlike other small sandpipers, have a distinctly long-winged and slender-size body appearance. Their upper breeding plumage has a bright scaled, chestnut brown and rufous colour, with darker blackish centre and white-sided rump and white underparts. They have spotted sides and upper breast, with brown crown and white eyebrows. The non-breeding plumage is greyish and white.

Apart from the inconspicuous, near-white eyebrows the head is brownish-grey streaked with light-grey or white, although during the breeding season the crown is streaked white-grey/rufous.

The Long-toed Stint prefer habitats that have shallow freshwater and brackish wetlands (brackish marsh – being intertidal wetlands that are dominated by grasses, forbs and shrubs, especially those that tolerate slight to moderate salinities). They are found in coastal wetlands, as well as inland water sources, and have been sighted around sewage ponds and happily share the same habitats amongst other wader bird species.


The photographs presented here were taken in the month of October.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Genus: Calidris
- Species: Calidris subminuta
Footnote & References
- Long-toed Stint, mdahlem.net, https://mdahlem.net/birds/8/lotstint.php
- Stint Identification, by Melissa Hafting, 19 august, 2017, Dare to Bird, https://daretobird.blogspot.com/2017/08/stint-identification.html
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