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Arenaria interpres · Family Scolopacidae
Arenaria interpres
Family Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,213,717
- Countries and territories with records
- 233
About this species
This species has 2,213,717 occurrence records from 233 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (39.9%), the Netherlands (8.3%), the United Kingdom (6.9%), Sweden (4.4%) and Canada (4.2%); together they account for 63.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.079% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Arenaria interpres combines the genus name Arenaria with the species epithet interpres. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Arenaria: Arenaria melanocephala.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Actitis macularius. Its record count is 3.1 times the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.