🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Pectoral Sandpiper live?

Calidris melanotos has 888,480 records in 171 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeCalidris

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. 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 649,576
Canada 124,973
Netherlands 13,046
Argentina 10,910
Sweden 10,787
Australia 8,695
United Kingdom 6,379
Peru 5,451
Brazil 3,463
Mexico 3,456
Costa Rica 2,968
Spain 2,578
Colombia 2,329
Paraguay 2,282
Puerto Rico 2,214
Norway 2,190
Uruguay 2,067
Portugal 2,059
Bermuda 1,978
Denmark 1,687
Bolivia 1,686
Belize 1,526
France 1,452
Chile 1,185
Barbados 1,115
Ecuador 1,089
Panama 1,068
Guadeloupe 1,021
Belgium 1,017
Aruba 988
Bahamas 959
New Zealand 949
Honduras 906
South Africa 866
Venezuela 854
CuraΓ§ao 847
Russia 844
Guatemala 726
Nicaragua 677
Bonaire 605

Showing the top 40 of 171 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.