Temminck’s Stint
The Temminck’s Stint is a tiny wading bird similar in size to the Little Stint with a rather drab and plain brown plumage.The legs are yellow and the outer tail feathers white.
The Temminck’s Stint breeds in the bogs and marshes of the taiga and tundra regions of Arctic northern Europe and Asia and performs a delightful breeding display in which it hovers like a large moth whilst trilling constantly. When singing, either in the air or on the top of a bush, it spreads its tail to display the prominent white outer tail feathers.
This bird was named after Coenraad Jacob Temminck, a Dutch naturalist
Date: 26th May 2009
Location: Skallelv, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark, Norway
The Temminck’s Stint breeds in the bogs and marshes of the taiga and tundra regions of Arctic northern Europe and Asia and performs a delightful breeding display in which it hovers like a large moth whilst trilling constantly. When singing, either in the air or on the top of a bush, it spreads its tail to display the prominent white outer tail feathers.
This bird was named after Coenraad Jacob Temminck, a Dutch naturalist
Date: 26th May 2009
Location: Skallelv, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark, Norway
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Also in: North Finland and north Norway - May and June 2009
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