Calidris minuta (Leisler, 1812).

Length 13 cm. The smallest wader in the region, this tiny bird is brown above with paler underparts and with a black bill and legs. The Little Stint spends the winter on coastal and estuary shores and on mudflats and salt marsh. Its food consists of insects and small aquatic invertebrates, which it detects by sight and catches with rapid pecking movements. It is a gregarious species and can sometimes be found in flocks of several thousand birds. It has been known to defend its feeding territory. A common winter visitor to Egypt where it is found along the Red Sea Coast and on Lake Manzala.