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Where does the Common Ringed Plover live?

Charadrius hiaticula has 1,825,772 records in 177 countries and territories, from 1758 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Ringed Plover
Common Ringed Plover — Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesCharadriidaeCharadrius

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
Sweden 454,857
Denmark 210,861
Norway 207,874
United Kingdom 186,758
Netherlands 181,989
Spain 130,007
France 76,339
Portugal 60,799
Finland 35,302
South Africa 29,664
Israel 27,915
Belgium 21,831
Germany 20,501
Estonia 19,545
Iceland 19,062
Ireland 13,669
United Arab Emirates 10,651
Poland 10,494
Russia 7,176
Kenya 6,903
Türkiye 5,792
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 5,555
Morocco 5,006
Italy 4,387
Greece 4,299
Isle of Man 3,491
United States 3,170
Senegal 3,150
Tanzania 3,038
Oman 2,830
Austria 2,373
Czechia 2,299
Egypt 2,293
Gambia 2,290
Namibia 2,177
Saudi Arabia 1,875
Bulgaria 1,785
Mozambique 1,738
Kuwait 1,704
Iran 1,692

Showing the top 40 of 177 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.