Western Sandpiper
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Western Sandpiper

Calidris mauri

Overview

Arenal and Monteverde are the two atlas places where the Western Sandpiper is recorded. Its records concentrate in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama, and the atlas map follows where they gather. There are about 583,000 open records of this bird from eight countries.

Records of Calidris mauri span the year, appearing in every month.

Records
583,023
Countries
8
Atlas places
2
Months with records
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Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.

Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Western 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 · 520073 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Canada
    25 km zone · high confidence · 40328 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mexico
    25 km zone · high confidence · 11241 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Costa Rica
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5688 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Panama
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2588 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Belize
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1198 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ecuador
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1004 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Colombia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 903 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 Western Sandpiper