Dunlin

Calidris alpina

190,336Records since 2000

SeptemberPeak month

123Counties with records

Near ThreatenedIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan17,887

Feb12,667

Mar11,606

Apr11,645

May19,959

Jun7,063

Jul14,268

Aug24,094

Sep25,748

Oct19,248

Nov14,024

Dec11,611

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

#	County	Nation	Records
1	Cambridgeshire	England	15,184
2	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	11,454
3	Norfolk	England	10,163
4	Suffolk	England	9,335
5	Kent	England	7,247
6	Lincolnshire	England	6,623
7	Dorset	England	4,740
8	Essex	England	4,199
9	East Lothian	Scotland	3,707
10	Shetland Islands	—	3,469
11	Rutland	England	3,398
12	Gloucestershire	England	3,063
13	Sefton	England	2,959
14	Na h-Eileanan Siar	Scotland	2,957
15	Cornwall	England	2,946

156,763 England24,984 Scotland6,676 Wales1,793 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

Records since 2000: 190,336
Peak month: September
Counties with records: 123
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
Scientific name: Calidris alpina
Group: Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000: 82,202
Most recorded in: Cambridgeshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, Lincolnshire, Dorset, Essex, East Lothian, Shetland Islands, Rutland, Gloucestershire +65
Conservation designations: Bern Convention, Convention on Migratory Species, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Calidris
Name with authority: Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described: 1758
Contributing datasets: 37