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Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)Where and when to see it in the UK

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

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

Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
Janne Teivonen, CC BY 4.0, 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.

Solitary 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.

Solitary Sandpiper has been recorded in 7 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in October.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
TR26Kent, England302023unverified
SV91Isles of Scilly, England852000 to 2020unverified
SV81Isles of Scilly, England202000 to 2018unverified
SD44Lancashire, England162011unverified
SY29Devon, England132010unverified
TL56Cambridgeshire, England42003 to 2008unverified
TL31Hertfordshire, England282002unverified

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.