Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Sandpipers and Allies
Call and song
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About the Spotted Sandpiper
Small shorebird. Constantly bobs its tail while working edges of streams, ponds, and lakes for invertebrates. Several individuals may be found at the same body of water, but never forms tight flocks. Underparts spotted in summer; plain in winter. Listen for two- or three-noted whistled call as they flush from shorelines. Distinctive wingbeats: snappy and below horizontal.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 83 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Clipperton Island
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- Germany
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- High Seas
- Honduras
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Maarten
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Türkiye
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
