Stint
A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic "Calidris" assemblage - often separated in Erolia -, which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers.
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“Rose, harsh rose,
marred and with stint of petals,
meager flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)