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Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks August · Sandpipers and Allies · BOU category A

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

Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica)
Cláudio Dias Timm from Rio Grande do Sul, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Hudsonian Godwit: 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.

Hudsonian Godwit has been recorded in 14 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in August.

Conservation status: Vulnerable (IUCN Red List, VU)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
TM13Suffolk, England152026unverified
TM03Suffolk, England62026unverified
TM46Suffolk, England12026unverified
SU50Hampshire, England52025unverified
SJ37Cheshire West and Chester, England522024unverified
SJ27Flintshire, Wales172024unverified
SJ48Liverpool, England12024unverified
HU40Shetland Islands, Scotland72023unverified
HU31Shetland Islands, Scotland22023unverified
HU41Shetland Islands, Scotland12023unverified
NO41Fife, Scotland132020unverified
NO42Fife, Scotland12020unverified
ST44Somerset, England922015unverified
ST43Somerset, England102015unverified

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