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Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)Where and when to see it in the UK

Status not yet classified · reporting peaks August · Sandpipers and Allies · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
Stephan Sprinz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peak months
Baird's Sandpiper: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Baird's Sandpiper has been recorded in 54 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (2%) in records to 2026. Its strongest squares are in England, Scotland and Wales. Reporting peaks in August.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List
Relative to this species' best squares (how classes are calculated)
Very high
12% or more of visits
High
2% to 12%
Moderate
1% to 2%
Low
under 1%
Surveyed, not recorded
at least 20 qualifying visits, no record
Insufficient records
too few visits to say
Lighter fill
Few visits, lower confidence
Small dot
Occasional: a single record, or out of season

Seasonality

Reporting rate by month, relative to the peak month
MonthRelative to peakShare of visitsTypical class
January 0%<1%Very high
February 0%<1%Insufficient records
March 0%<1%Insufficient records
April 0%<1%Insufficient records
May 1%<1%Low
June 1%<1%Low
July 3%<1%Low
August 100%<1%High
September 61%<1%Low
October 30%<1%Moderate
November 2%<1%Low
December 0%<1%Insufficient records

Squares with the highest reporting rate in August

SquareWhereShare of visitsClass
SJ48Liverpool, England100%Very high
SK68Nottinghamshire, England100%Very high
SY29Devon, England100%Very high
NF73Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland12%Very high
TF33Lincolnshire, England8%High
ST38Newport, Wales7%High
NT48East Lothian, Scotland4%High
NT77East Lothian, Scotland2%High
TG41Norfolk, England2%Moderate
SE60Doncaster, England1%Moderate

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.