What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common Redshank been recorded?

Tringa totanus occurrence evidence comes from 567,161 records in 67 countries and territories, from 1833 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Redshank
Common Redshank — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeTringa

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

567,161 records across 67 countries and territories, 1833–2026.

Tringa totanus · GBIF taxon key 2481714

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

7 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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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.

Records over time

18332026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Common Redshank has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common Redshank. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 499,709
Belgium 59,644
United Kingdom 4,158
Austria 930
Netherlands 587
China 452
Spain 364
Russia 246
Ukraine 211
Germany 180
South Korea 105
Mongolia 62
Iceland 55
Ireland 41
Taiwan 36
Denmark 31
Norway 28
Portugal 28
France 27
Afghanistan 22
Luxembourg 22
Finland 20
Senegal 19
Iran 16
Thailand 16
Singapore 14
Estonia 13
Sri Lanka 12
Hong Kong 9
Greece 8
Japan 7
Türkiye 7
Iraq 6
Uganda 6
Israel 5
India 5
Italy 5
Malaysia 5
Jordan 4
Kazakhstan 4

Showing the top 40 of 67 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.