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Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola

13,506Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
93Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb1
Mar2
Apr952
May2,764
Jun583
Jul2,117
Aug5,178
Sep1,682
Oct184
Nov29
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England1,605
2Cambridgeshire England1,086
3Lincolnshire England980
4Suffolk England919
5Kent England799
6East Riding of Yorkshire England743
7Rutland England342
8Essex England311
9Cornwall England301
10Gloucestershire England277
11North Yorkshire England239
12Dorset England210
13Somerset England209
14East Lothian Scotland156
15Rotherham England145
13,027 England318 Scotland139 Wales19 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
13,506
Peak month
August
Counties with records
93
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Tringa glareola
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
477
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species, Bern Convention, Birds Directive, 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 glareola Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q18837 · GBIF 2481713