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Spotted Redshank

Tringa erythropus

28,229Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
94Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan1,676
Feb1,376
Mar1,680
Apr2,850
May995
Jun1,536
Jul3,547
Aug4,785
Sep4,972
Oct2,752
Nov1,250
Dec807

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England3,830
2Suffolk England3,434
3Lincolnshire England2,265
4Gloucestershire England1,528
5East Riding of Yorkshire England1,525
6Norfolk England1,416
7Dorset England1,163
8Essex England766
9Kent England694
10Devon England668
11Sefton England637
12Somerset England630
13East Lothian Scotland318
14North Lincolnshire England311
15Cornwall England309
26,930 England690 Scotland575 Wales32 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
28,229
Peak month
September
Counties with records
94
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Tringa erythropus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,035
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, Convention on Migratory Species, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Tringa
Name with authority
Tringa erythropus (Pallas, 1764)
Described
1764
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28103 · GBIF 2481725