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Where does the Least Sandpiper live?

Calidris minutilla has 2,824,527 records in 76 countries and territories, from 1847 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Least Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper β€” Charles Homler d/b/a FocusOnWildlife / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeCalidris

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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 2,320,314
Canada 296,597
Mexico 59,525
Costa Rica 20,795
Belize 14,016
Colombia 10,073
Peru 9,399
Puerto Rico 9,302
Ecuador 6,646
Honduras 6,618
Cuba 6,153
Panama 5,600
Venezuela 5,144
Guatemala 4,950
Cayman Islands 4,395
Bonaire 3,765
El Salvador 3,639
Nicaragua 3,488
Bermuda 3,393
Bahamas 3,002
Barbados 2,697
Guadeloupe 2,623
CuraΓ§ao 2,620
Aruba 2,356
Dominican Republic 2,119
Chile 1,689
Jamaica 1,629
Trinidad & Tobago 1,454
Brazil 1,291
Portugal 1,216
US Virgin Islands 957
Anguilla 845
Turks and Caicos Islands 701
French Guiana 656
Saint Martin 600
Grenada 594
Suriname 521
Martinique 365
Guyana 312
Sweden 303

Showing the top 40 of 76 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.