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Calidris
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Size: small to medium. Plumage: dull grey or brownish non-breeding plumage; striking breeding plumage; long pointed wings with a white bar in spread wing; square tail with slightly longer middle rectrices. Other characters: legs short, most with small hind toes; females slightly larger than males usually with somewhat longer bill. <389>
- Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London.
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Depth range based on 302 specimens in 20 taxa.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 119 samples.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0 - 0
Temperature range (°C): -0.155 - 16.316
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.240 - 10.807
Salinity (PPS): 28.143 - 35.399
Oxygen (ml/l): 5.685 - 9.061
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.256 - 1.104
Silicate (umol/l): 0.984 - 7.273
Graphical representation
Temperature range (°C): -0.155 - 16.316
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.240 - 10.807
Salinity (PPS): 28.143 - 35.399
Oxygen (ml/l): 5.685 - 9.061
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.256 - 1.104
Silicate (umol/l): 0.984 - 7.273
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Calidris (redshank, dunlin, knot) preys on:
Littorina
Hydrobia
Corophium
Cardium
Macoma
Nereidae
Based on studies in:
Scotland, Ythan estuary (Littoral, Mudflat)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- H. Milne and G. M. Dunnet, Standing crop, productivity and trophic relations of the fauna of the Ythan estuary. In: The Estuarine Environment, R. S. K. Barnes and J. Green, Eds. (Applied Science Publications, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1972), pp. 86-106, from
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records: 310
Specimens with Sequences: 267
Specimens with Barcodes: 267
Species: 20
Species With Barcodes: 19
Public Records: 240
Public Species: 19
Public BINs: 19
Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Calidris
A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic "Calidris" assemblage – often separated in Erolia – which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers.
Some of these birds are difficult to identify because of the similarity between species, and various breeding, non-breeding, juvenile and moulting plumages. In addition, some plovers are also similarly patterned, especially in winter. With a few exceptions, stints usually have a fairly stereotypical color pattern, being brownish above and lighter – usually white – on much of the underside. The breast sides are almost[verification needed] always colored like the upperside, and there is usually a lighter supercilium above brownish cheeks. Notably, golden or orangey colors – common in plovers – are absent[verification needed].
Systematics and taxonomy[edit]
The genus Calidris is not monophyletic in its traditional delimitations and should be restricted to the stout red knot and its allies. The genus Erolia was often used for the stints ever since it was proposed by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816. However, the type species of Erolia is the curlew sandpiper, which is not traditionally included among the stints.
No firm consensus has been reached on the curlew sandpiper's phylogenetic status (i.e., what its closest relatives are) and hence Erolia cannot be exactly delimited at present. This notwithstanding, the stints together with a few slightly more distinct calidrids would indeed warrant separation as a distinct genus. The sanderling, sometimes placed in Crocethia, is among these and it may be that this genus name would apply.[1]
The species usually considered stints/peeps are:
- Semipalmated sandpiper, Calidris pusilla or Erolia pusilla
- Western sandpiper, Calidris mauri or Erolia mauri
- Red-necked stint, Calidris ruficollis or Erolia ruficollis
- Little stint, Calidris minuta or Erolia minuta
- Temminck's stint, Calidris temminckii or Erolia temminckii
- Long-toed stint, Calidris subminuta or Erolia subminuta
- Least sandpiper, Calidris minutilla or Erolia minutilla
- White-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis or Erolia fuscicollis
- Baird's sandpiper, Calidris bairdii or Erolia bairdii
See also[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ Thomas et al. (2004)
References[edit]
- Thomas, Gavin H.; Wills, Matthew A. & Székely, Tamás (2004): A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny. BMC Evol. Biol. 4: 28. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-4-28 PMID 15329156 PDF fulltext Supplementary Material
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