Vik's Gallery:   Red-necked Stint (4/5)

CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae

Calidris ruficollis  

A Red-necked Stint developing breeding plumage and starting to show a red-washed neck.

Within days this small bird will be winging its way over many thousands of kilometres to the tundra of Siberia to breed and, all going well, will return here in Spring.