Little Stint

Check muddy estuaries, lagoon edges and lake margins for a very small, fast-moving wader picking rapidly at the surface with a short, fine bill, often in mixed flocks with other small sandpipers. It is a long-distance migrant breeding in the high Arctic and wintering in Africa and southern Asia, so it is best looked for during spring and autumn passage rather than as a resident species. Comparing size and feeding action against nearby species helps separate it from similar small waders on the same mudflat.