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Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Calidris subruficollis

1,257Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
40Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr8
May103
Jun23
Jul31
Aug111
Sep623
Oct357
Nov0
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England186
2Cornwall England183
3Isles of Scilly England144
4Suffolk England59
5Shetland Islands —58
6Cambridgeshire England51
7Orkney Islands Scotland51
8Norfolk England34
9Kent England34
10Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland32
11North Lincolnshire England29
12Dorset England19
13Bath and North East Somerset England19
14York England19
15Gloucestershire England18
1,034 England172 Scotland41 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 40 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,257
Peak month
September
Counties with records
40
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Calidris subruficollis
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
62
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Calidris
Name with authority
Calidris subruficollis (Vieillot, 1819)
Described
1819
Contributing datasets
6

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q27452709 · GBIF 8292425