BY CAMMY CLARK
CCLARK@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Swedish biologist Viktor Nilsson-Ortman came to Florida to collect damselfly eggs for his post doctorate research and left last week with a discovery that turned the birding world all aflutter.
On the shoreline he spotted a red-necked stint, the first time this species has been seen and documented in the Sunshine State.
“What a great find Viktor!” was the salute on limeybirder.wordpress.com.
The red-necked stint is a tiny shorebird in the sandpiper family that breeds in Siberian Asia and parts of western Alaska. It migrates thousands of miles to winter in east India and Taiwan south through Australia and New Zealand. In the continental Untied States, the species has been spotted along the Pacific coast and in New England and New Jersey. And in July 2012, a red-necked stint caused a big stir when one was discovered by a national wildlife refuge biologist in Kansas.
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