Temminck's Stint is a small wader seen in the UK mainly on passage; breeding records in northern Scotland are exceptional.
It has a gray-brown back, a white belly, and a short bill. It probes in mud for food.
In the UK it is recorded around migration in damp fields and muddy watersides; breeding in northern Scotland is exceptional.
It makes a shallow ground nest, often among low plants or at the base of small shrubs. The usual clutch is four eggs, incubation lasts 21–22 days, and chicks hatch covered in down.
On breeding grounds and inland it mainly eats insects and larvae, including beetles, craneflies and midges, with some plant material. Coastal foods include annelids, crustaceans and small mollusks.
It has pale legs and a neat whitish eye ring. White outer tail feathers are conspicuous in flight. Juvenile shoulder and wing coverts have a dark line just inside the pale feather edge.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.