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Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos · Family Scolopacidae
Actitis hypoleucos
Family Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,837,425
- Countries and territories with records
- 183
About this species
This species has 2,837,425 occurrence records from 183 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (14.1%), Spain (9%), India (9%), Norway (7.4%) and Taiwan (6.3%); together they account for 45.9% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.39% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Actitis hypoleucos combines the genus name Actitis with the species epithet hypoleucos. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Actitis: Actitis macularius.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Actitis macularius. Its record count is 4 times the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.