Identification: A small wader that resembles Red-necked Stints and Little Stints but somewhat longer necked, finer billed, longer winged with a more slender-bodied appearance. Legs and feet are yellowish and distinctively long. Breeding plumaged adult and juvenile have rufous crown with dark streaks, upperparts and tertials broadly fringed rufous. Neck sides and breast washed creamy-buff and dark streaked. Underparts are white. They resemble the much larger Sharp-tailed Sandpipers in pattern and colour. Non-breeding adult rather plain mousy brown above, pale below.