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

[4] Temminck's stint is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

This is a rather drab wader, with mainly plain brown upperparts and head, and underparts white apart from a darker breast.

This stint's breeding habitat is bogs and marshes in the taiga of Arctic northern Europe and Asia.

Temminck's stint is strongly migratory, wintering at freshwater sites in tropical Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia.