🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Purple Sandpiper live?

Calidris maritima has 407,794 records in 56 countries and territories, from 1766 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Purple Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper β€” Chuck Homler d/b/a Focus On Wildlife / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeCalidris

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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 99,446
Netherlands 69,384
Sweden 66,484
Norway 47,710
United Kingdom 24,522
Denmark 20,737
Canada 20,474
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 13,879
Iceland 12,622
France 6,574
Spain 4,235
Germany 4,098
Belgium 4,094
Portugal 3,517
Finland 2,748
Ireland 1,743
Isle of Man 1,089
Estonia 888
Poland 598
Greenland 489
Russia 478
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 404
Faroe Islands 274
Italy 197
Γ…land Islands 159
Greece 126
Ukraine 109
Jersey 79
Latvia 60
Lithuania 58
Austria 52
Romania 50
Mexico 47
Hungary 45
Belarus 37
Croatia 36
Bulgaria 35
Czechia 30
Switzerland 29
Serbia 23

Showing the top 40 of 56 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.