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Spotted sandpiper
Actitis macularius · Family Scolopacidae
Actitis macularius
Family Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,711,401
- Countries and territories with records
- 88
About this species
This species has 3,711,401 occurrence records from 88 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (68.4%), Canada (16.9%), Mexico (3.2%), Costa Rica (2.6%) and Colombia (1.2%); together they account for 92.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Actitis macularius combines the genus name Actitis with the species epithet macularius. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Actitis: Actitis hypoleucos.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 5.3 times the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.