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Green Sandpiper

Tringa ochropus

76,512Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
110Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan3,114
Feb2,217
Mar3,928
Apr5,295
May495
Jun3,393
Jul12,325
Aug21,290
Sep12,963
Oct5,495
Nov3,515
Dec2,467

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England5,563
2Norfolk England4,341
3Suffolk England4,043
4Rutland England3,521
5Kent England3,304
6Lincolnshire England2,795
7Essex England2,490
8Dorset England2,258
9East Riding of Yorkshire England2,215
10Gloucestershire England1,865
11Surrey England1,788
12Cornwall England1,711
13Thurrock England1,220
14Nottinghamshire England986
15Cheshire East England964
74,806 England886 Scotland798 Wales19 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 110 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
76,512
Peak month
August
Counties with records
110
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Tringa ochropus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
18,276
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species, Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Tringa
Name with authority
Tringa ochropus Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28450 · GBIF 2481728