What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Curlew Sandpiper been recorded?

Calidris ferruginea occurrence evidence comes from 126,530 records in 56 countries and territories, from 1844 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Curlew Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper — Photo (display-sized rendition): Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeCalidris

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

126,530 records across 56 countries and territories, 1844–2026.

Calidris ferruginea · GBIF taxon key 2481741

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-24. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

4 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: July. 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

18442026

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

Where Curlew Sandpiper has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Curlew 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
Sweden 121,038
Belgium 3,985
Austria 755
Australia 191
Spain 120
United Kingdom 50
South Africa 50
Germany 47
Uganda 45
Russia 38
Kenya 34
Namibia 16
Djibouti 12
United States 12
Mongolia 11
Senegal 11
Albania 9
Thailand 9
Italy 8
South Korea 6
Taiwan 6
Ethiopia 5
Hong Kong 5
Denmark 4
Kuwait 4
Algeria 3
France 3
Iran 3
Sri Lanka 3
Madagascar 3
Malaysia 3
Netherlands 3
Portugal 3
Qatar 3
Tanzania 3
Angola 2
Finland 2
Greece 2
Luxembourg 2
Mozambique 2

Showing the top 40 of 56 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.