Birds and wildlife

Common Sandpiper

Actitis hypoleucosGroup: Sandpipers, snipes and phalaropesUK Conservation status:Amber

How to identify

The Common Sandpiper is a smallish wader with contrasting brown upperparts and white underparts. It bobs up and down, known as 'teetering', and has a distinctive flight with stiff, bowed wings. The three-note call it gives as it flies off may be your first sign that a Common Sandpiper is near.

Call

Common Sandpiper

Niels Krabbe / xeno-canto

Key

  1. Resident
  2. Passage
  3. Summer
  4. Winter
* This map is intended as a guide. It shows general distribution rather than detailed, localised populations.
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Key facts