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Curlew Sandpiper

Calidris ferruginea

16,711Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
84Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan32
Feb22
Mar19
Apr220
May1,094
Jun394
Jul1,315
Aug3,719
Sep7,779
Oct1,950
Nov139
Dec27

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England1,767
2Lincolnshire England1,622
3East Riding of Yorkshire England1,382
4Norfolk England1,229
5Kent England864
6Suffolk England803
7East Lothian Scotland485
8Dorset England433
9Cornwall England343
10Thurrock England310
11Essex England291
12Sefton England285
13Devon England275
14Somerset England272
15Portsmouth England211
15,083 England1,235 Scotland332 Wales58 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
16,711
Peak month
September
Counties with records
84
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Calidris ferruginea
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,389
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Convention on Migratory Species, Birds of Conservation Concern
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Calidris
Name with authority
Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Described
1763
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q62345 · GBIF 2481741