Little Stint, Calidris minuta, is a species of wader found in wetland, unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land and marine inlet and transitional water ecosystems. It breeds in the arctic north of Norway and Russia. This species is a full long-distance migrant that migrates overland on a broad front. During the breeding season this species inhabits low altitude tundra (although it exceptionally occurs above 1,000 m in the west of its range). It shows a preference for dry ground among dwarf willows near swampy areas or saltmarshes, or areas where mosses and sedges are interspersed with hummocks covered by Empetrum . It avoids areas where annual rainfall exceeds 250 mm. In its winter range the species mainly inhabits coastal areas such as estuarine mudflats and sandflats, enclosed lagoons, tidal creeks and saltpans, but it also occurs at inland freshwater wetlands such as open pools in marshes, paddyfields, jheels (and other small bodies of water covered with vegetation), small dams, floodwater margins and sandbanks along rivers(European Red List 2015).

In the EU27, Calidris minuta is only found in Finland and has a breeding population size of 0-5 pairs and a breeding range size of 0 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Unknown in the short term and Unknown in the long term.

The EU population status was based on the winter data for this species. Calidris minuta has a winter population size of 14000-28500 individuals in the EU27. The winter population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Stable in the long term.

The EU population status of Calidris minuta was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).