Spotted Sandpiper
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Spotted Sandpiper

Actitis macularius

Overview

The Osa Peninsula and Corcovado are the two atlas places where the Spotted Sandpiper is recorded, with records gathering most thickly in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica and Belize. The atlas holds about 1.1 million open records of this bird from eight countries, and its map follows where these records concentrate.

Seasons for recording this member of the Scolopacidae family differ by region, and each place page shows the months recorded there.

Records
1,064,488
Countries
8
Atlas places
2
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Spotted Sandpiper as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • United States
    25 km zone · high confidence · 803143 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Canada
    25 km zone · high confidence · 193335 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Costa Rica
    25 km zone · high confidence · 30100 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mexico
    25 km zone · high confidence · 13965 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Belize
    25 km zone · high confidence · 8899 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Panama
    25 km zone · high confidence · 8236 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Peru
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4022 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Curaçao
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2788 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Spotted Sandpiper