What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Ruddy Turnstone been recorded?

Arenaria interpres occurrence evidence comes from 115,337 records in 111 countries and territories, from 1833 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Ruddy Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone — Photo (display-sized rendition): Chuck Homler d/b/a Focus On Wildlife · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeArenaria

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

115,337 records across 111 countries and territories, 1833–2026.

Arenaria interpres · GBIF taxon key 2481776

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

9 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.

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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.

Records over time

18332026

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

Where Ruddy Turnstone has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Ruddy Turnstone. 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
Sweden 93,350
Belgium 14,727
United States 4,062
United Kingdom 831
Colombia 584
Canada 323
Spain 231
Austria 96
Mexico 88
Portugal 84
Australia 70
Netherlands 60
South Korea 55
France 51
Peru 49
Ecuador 43
Russia 43
Germany 32
Ireland 32
Japan 29
Iceland 27
Chile 22
Costa Rica 22
Puerto Rico 20
Cayman Islands 19
Brazil 18
Argentina 14
Seychelles 14
Morocco 13
Senegal 13
Samoa 12
South Africa 12
Thailand 11
Bermuda 10
Cabo Verde 10
Namibia 10
Norway 10
Bonaire 9
New Zealand 9
Cuba 8

Showing the top 40 of 111 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.