Long-toed Stint
Calidris subminuta
IUCN status: Least concern
King Street Mudflats. Redlands. Peter Harms. 4/4/2026
Identification
Non-breeding: Upperparts grey-brown with black centres giving mottled look. Underparts white with grey-brown wash and black streaks. Small head, round belly and short rear-end. Long slim toes.
Breeding: Crown orange rufous with black streaks forming cap. Upperparts strongly patterned.
Confusing Species
Red-necked Stint
Distribution
Distribution
No ordinary distribution in Australia.
Migratory habits
Migrates from Siberia south into south-east Asia, the east coast of India, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Breeding
Breeding areas not well known but thought to be in Siberia and east to the Kamachtka Peninsula.
Sightings of Long-toed Stint in Queensland
| Date | Location |
| 2025-04-16 | Tinchi Tamba Wetlands Reserve |
| 2025-01-04 | Tinchi Tamba Wetlands Reserve |
| 2024-12-26 | Gregory Road, Mango Hill |
| 2005-12-23 | Cairns Esplanade |
| 2023-10-17 | Hastie’s Swamp Bird Hide |
| 2020-1-3 | Lake Dyer, Lockyer Valley |
| 2022-3-19 | Wellington Point, Geoff Skinner Reserve |
| 2018-12-31 | Port of Brisbane Shorebird Roost |
| 2018-2-2 | Nathan Road Wetlands |
References
- Geering, Andrew, Lindsay Agnew, and Sandra Harding, eds. Shorebirds of Australia. Csiro Publishing, 2007.
- eBird. 2021. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org (Accessed: Date 12/4/2026)
- Rogers A, Fuller RA & Amano T (2023) Australia’s migratory shorebirds: Trends and prospects. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. University of Queensland, Brisbane.
- Driessen, J., Kidd, L. R., Weller, D. R., Purnell, C., Maguire, G., Jaensch, R., and LeClair, S. M. (2025). Australian National Directory of Important Migratory Shorebird Habitat. Report for the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. BirdLife Australia, Melbourne.
- https://sproggies63.github.io/birding_apps/
- van Gils, J., P. Wiersma, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.lotsti.01