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Where does the Spotted Sandpiper live?

Actitis macularius has 3,705,498 records in 85 countries and territories, from 1773 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper β€” No machine-readable author provided. Factumquintus assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeActitis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 2,536,788
Canada 625,696
Mexico 118,103
Costa Rica 96,077
Colombia 42,869
Belize 30,390
Panama 29,631
Peru 26,330
Ecuador 24,924
Puerto Rico 19,077
Honduras 15,051
Guatemala 13,714
Brazil 11,495
Venezuela 8,649
Cuba 8,276
Nicaragua 7,510
Trinidad & Tobago 7,267
Guadeloupe 6,304
Bahamas 6,119
El Salvador 5,985
CuraΓ§ao 4,339
Barbados 4,281
Bermuda 3,962
US Virgin Islands 3,823
Portugal 3,565
Dominican Republic 3,531
Jamaica 3,468
Bonaire 3,265
Cayman Islands 3,167
Aruba 2,720
Guyana 2,510
Grenada 2,312
Suriname 1,967
Chile 1,797
Netherlands 1,740
Saint Martin 1,489
French Guiana 1,442
United Kingdom 1,343
Bolivia 1,276
Uruguay 1,098

Showing the top 40 of 85 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.