Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius) is a small shorebird. Together with its sister species the common sandpiper (A. hypoleucos), it makes up the genus Actitis. They replace each other geographically; stray birds may settle down with breeders of the other species and hybridize.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds inland waterbody margins from Aleutian Islands and Alaska mainland except North Slope eastward through Canada (except far northern) to Newfoundland, and southward to southwestern and east-central USA; winters southern USA and Caribbean southward to northern Chile and Argentina.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Continents
Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Germany
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Spotted sandpiper
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
