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Where does the Green Sandpiper live?

Tringa ochropus has 1,686,375 records in 158 countries and territories, from 1833 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Green Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper — Swardeepak / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeTringa

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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 390,523
Spain 151,632
Netherlands 141,207
India 138,051
France 124,019
United Kingdom 104,750
Denmark 99,323
Belgium 84,704
Norway 67,912
Portugal 41,813
Finland 36,286
Germany 34,604
Israel 33,551
Taiwan 32,440
Russia 16,955
Türkiye 13,429
Estonia 12,143
China 11,261
Italy 10,935
Czechia 8,701
United Arab Emirates 8,489
Poland 8,129
Kenya 6,477
Greece 6,231
Hong Kong 6,104
Nepal 5,820
Austria 4,990
South Korea 4,983
Ukraine 4,183
Iran 3,974
Morocco 3,882
Bulgaria 3,763
Japan 3,756
Thailand 3,127
Switzerland 2,814
Oman 2,761
Cyprus 2,364
Serbia 2,324
Hungary 2,277
Tanzania 2,121

Showing the top 40 of 158 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.