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Spotted Sandpiper

Actitis macularius

997Records since 2000
MayPeak month
36Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan46
Feb23
Mar46
Apr8
May270
Jun118
Jul68
Aug59
Sep46
Oct197
Nov91
Dec25

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England188
2Isles of Scilly England135
3Bath and North East Somerset England92
4Cornwall England42
5Fife Scotland42
6Nottinghamshire England38
7Essex England28
8Dorset England17
9Somerset England16
10Rutland England16
11Cumbria England15
12Shetland Islands —13
13East Lothian Scotland11
14Bristol, City of England10
15South Ayrshire Scotland9
888 England89 Scotland18 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 36 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
997
Peak month
May
Counties with records
36
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Actitis macularius
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
70
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Actitis
Name with authority
Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)
Described
1766
Contributing datasets
4

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q389691 · GBIF 2481798