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Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)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

Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
Don Faulkner, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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.

Upland 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.

Upland 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 October.

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

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SW32Cornwall, England222005 to 2023unverified
TA41East Riding of Yorkshire, England32023unverified
SW33Cornwall, England12023unverified
HP61Shetland Islands, Scotland42006 to 2021unverified
SM70Pembrokeshire, Wales12020unverified
TG14Norfolk, England12019unverified
HU69Shetland Islands, Scotland12017unverified
SV91Isles of Scilly, England312011unverified
NK06Aberdeenshire, Scotland192008unverified
NK05Aberdeenshire, Scotland22008unverified
HP60Shetland Islands, Scotland12006unverified
ST36North Somerset, England422005unverified
ST46North Somerset, England32005unverified
ST37North Somerset, England12005unverified
ST47North Somerset, England12005unverified

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.