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Little Stint (Calidris minuta)Where and when to see it in the UK

Status not yet classified · reporting peaks September · Sandpipers and Allies · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peak months
Little Stint: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Little Stint has been recorded in 489 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (16%) in records to 2026. Its strongest squares are in England, Scotland and Wales. Reporting peaks in September.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List
Relative to this species' best squares (how classes are calculated)
Very high
13% or more of visits
High
3% to 13%
Moderate
<1% to 3%
Low
under <1%
Surveyed, not recorded
at least 20 qualifying visits, no record
Insufficient records
too few visits to say
Lighter fill
Few visits, lower confidence
Small dot
Occasional: a single record, or out of season

Seasonality

Reporting rate by month, relative to the peak month
MonthRelative to peakShare of visitsTypical class
January 3%<1%Very high
February 2%<1%Low
March 2%<1%Very high
April 3%<1%Low
May 14%<1%Low
June 5%<1%Moderate
July 14%<1%Very high
August 51%1%Very high
September 100%3%High
October 39%1%Low
November 7%<1%Low
December 3%<1%Low

Squares with the highest reporting rate in September

SquareWhereShare of visitsClass
HU67Sea, off Shetland Islands100%Very high
NB56Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland100%Very high
NJ92Aberdeenshire, Scotland100%Very high
NK06Aberdeenshire, Scotland100%Very high
NO64Angus, Scotland100%Very high
NR67Argyll and Bute, Scotland100%Very high
SD32Lancashire, England100%Very high
SD34Lancashire, England100%Very high
SH47Isle of Anglesey, Wales100%Very high
SH50Gwynedd, Wales100%Very high

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.