What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Spotted Sandpiper been recorded?

Actitis macularius occurrence evidence comes from 13,007 records in 47 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Spotted Sandpiper
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AvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeActitis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

13,007 records across 47 countries and territories, 1860–2026.

Actitis macularius · GBIF taxon key 2481798

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18602026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Spotted Sandpiper has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Spotted Sandpiper. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 8,371
Colombia 1,866
Sweden 1,023
Canada 802
Mexico 389
Costa Rica 82
Peru 79
Ecuador 77
Belgium 59
Panama 32
Brazil 27
Belize 21
Honduras 17
Puerto Rico 17
El Salvador 16
Trinidad & Tobago 12
Cuba 11
Guyana 11
Dominican Republic 10
Argentina 9
Guadeloupe 7
Guatemala 7
Austria 5
Bolivia 5
Grenada 5
Nicaragua 5
Venezuela 5
Barbados 4
Dominica 3
France 3
United Kingdom 3
French Guiana 3
Saint Lucia 3
ZZ 3
Suriname 2
Bermuda 1
Bonaire 1
Chile 1
Germany 1
Spain 1

Showing the top 40 of 47 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.