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Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks June · Sandpipers and Allies · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
Original: tcager; this edit: User:MPF, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Great Knot: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Great Knot has been recorded in 14 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in June.

Conservation status: Endangered (IUCN Red List, EN)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
HP61Shetland Islands, Scotland92019unverified
HP50Shetland Islands, Scotland12019unverified
TF74Norfolk, England1022016unverified
TF84Norfolk, England22016unverified
TF64Norfolk, England22016unverified
TG40Norfolk, England262009 to 2014unverified
TG50Norfolk, England92014unverified
TM13Suffolk, England12013unverified
SK80Rutland, England152011unverified
SP68Leicestershire, England52011unverified
SK90Rutland, England42011unverified
SP89Leicestershire, England12011unverified
TM46Suffolk, England22007unverified
SD34Lancashire, England92004unverified

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