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Where does the Wood Sandpiper live?

Tringa glareola has 1,606,840 records in 173 countries and territories, from 1830 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Wood Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper — Abdul Momin / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeTringa

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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 471,307
India 194,970
Denmark 101,436
Taiwan 98,324
Finland 79,675
Norway 75,790
South Africa 59,176
France 45,851
Spain 41,988
Netherlands 28,820
Israel 23,720
Australia 23,383
Germany 23,039
Belgium 20,391
Poland 19,819
United Kingdom 18,947
Thailand 17,246
Russia 16,778
Estonia 14,298
Kenya 13,080
Greece 11,397
Türkiye 9,757
China 9,350
United Arab Emirates 9,208
Czechia 8,059
Hong Kong 7,932
Austria 7,839
Sri Lanka 7,672
Italy 6,421
United States 6,266
Zimbabwe 6,196
Namibia 5,751
Tanzania 5,571
Malaysia 4,729
Botswana 4,674
Philippines 4,609
Indonesia 4,465
Portugal 4,443
Uganda 4,350
Japan 4,299

Showing the top 40 of 173 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.