Temmick's Stint - Calidris temminckii
The Pivot fields in Dubai is an important overwintering and migration stop off on the great fly way between Africa and Central Asia - the Stans. Recently they seemed to have ripped up the turf - I am not sure why. The exposed earth has a number of free standing pools from a recent downpour and the irrigation. The site normally grows turf commercially.
Stints are tiny little waders - smaller than a sparrow. There were a large number of these birds across the site today on an early morning drop in - along with 3 Sociable Lapwing so I updated post 67 with some better shots of this rarest of birds.
Pivot Fields, Dubai
8 December 2012.
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