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Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)Where and when to see it in the UK

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

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

Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
Donna Dewhurst, USFWS, Public domain, 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.

Least Sandpiper: 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.

Least Sandpiper has been recorded in 15 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in July.

Conservation status: Near Threatened (IUCN Red List, NT)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
ST24Somerset, England52025unverified
SZ89West Sussex, England22025unverified
TA41East Riding of Yorkshire, England72024unverified
SW42Cornwall, England152022unverified
SS78Neath Port Talbot, Wales12022unverified
SY68Dorset, England372017unverified
SY29Devon, England52016unverified
SV80Sea, off Isles of Scilly22015unverified
SV81Isles of Scilly, England82011unverified
SE40Barnsley, England52011unverified
SW53Cornwall, England72006unverified
SX64Devon, England52005unverified
SP91Buckinghamshire, England352003unverified
SP29Warwickshire, England192002unverified
SK20Warwickshire, England12002unverified

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.