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Little Stint

Little Stint - Juvenile

Photographer

» Ruben Barone Tosco

Location

» Tejina-Valle de Guerra (La Laguna), Tenerife

Country image taken

» Canary Islands

Date

» October, 2017

Equipment

» Pentax K-m with zoom Tamron 70-300 mm

Bird Species

»Calidris minuta - Little Stint

Bird Species (French)

»Bécasseau minute

Bird Family

»Scolopacidae - Sandpipers, Snipes

Bird Group

»Charadriiformes Gull, Skua, Tern, Wader

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» This species is regularly seen in the Canaries during the spring and autumn migration, but in small numbers. Also, some birds spend the winter in the archipelago, mainly in the central-eastern islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote). The bird showed in the image was very tame.

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