Spotted Redshank

Tringa erythropus

The spotted redshank is a wader (shorebird) in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It breeds across northern Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic and migrates south to the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France, tropical Africa, and tropical Asia for the winter. It is an occasional vagrant to Australia and North America. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 5,387 times across 31 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

See the Spotted Redshank on the live map

Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 17°C (typically 13 to 20°C, from 7 areas).

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Europe ranged from 43°N in September to 70°N in June, about 3,100 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

Download every area as CSV

Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.