Little stint (Rẽ nhỏ, Calidris minuta or Erolia minuta)

The little stint (Calidris minuta) is a very small wader. 
This bird species breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia.

Charadriidae, Charadrius: Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate; from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine").

The bird is a visiting bird, yet uncommonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park, northern Vietnam.

The word Scolopacidae is New Latin, derived from the genus name Scolopax (Latin for "snipe" or "woodcock") and the common zoological suffix for family names, -idae.

The genus name Calidris is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.

The specific minuta is Latin for "small.