Common Sandpiper

Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus, 1758) — also called Common/Spotted Sandpiper. Occurrence records of the Common Sandpiper are shared on GBIF from around 46 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Paarl Bird Sanctuary (442 records), in 8 provinces.

IUCN: Least concernScolopacidae

46reserves with records

3 545records around them

8provinces

LCIUCN category

Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) — Photo: Christoph Müller · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
Paarl Bird SanctuaryWildlife sanctuary	WC Western Cape	442
Helderberg Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	276
Umhlanga LagoonProtected area	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	274
Macassar Dunes Conservation AreaProtected area	WC Western Cape	255
St. Lucia Game ParkNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	201
Limietberg Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	179
Burman BushProtected area	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	174
Beachwood Mangrove Nature ReserveProtected area	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	171
De Mond Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	168
Trafalgar Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	156
Steenbok Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	120
Gonubie Mouth Bird SanctuaryWildlife sanctuary	EC Eastern Cape	108
Gonubie Bird Sanctuary NPOWildlife sanctuary	EC Eastern Cape	108
Albert Falls Nature ReserveNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	79
False Bay ParkNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	67
Lambert’s Bay Bird Island Nature ReserveGame reserve	WC Western Cape	65
Featherbed Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	63
Nyalazi State ForestForest reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	56
Bronkhorstspruit Dam Nature ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	52
Nahoon Estuary Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	52
Dassie TrailNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	51
Bronkies Nature ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	51
Klipplaat-PrivaatnatuurreservaatNature reserve	NW North West	49
Kosi BayNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	42
Stilbaai Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	35
Loskop Dam Nature ReserveNature reserve	MP Mpumalanga	34
Kabeljous Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	28
Fort D' Acre ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	25
eMalahleni Nature ReserveNature reserve	MP Mpumalanga	23
Kowie Local Authority Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	21
Modjadji Nature ReserveProtected area	LP Limpopo	19
OPM Prozesky Bird SanctuaryWildlife sanctuary	NW North West	18
Ndumo Game ReserveGame reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	13
Nooitgedacht Dam Nature ReserveNature reserve	MP Mpumalanga	13
Bridle Drift Dam Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	11
Zimanga Private Game ReserveGame reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	9
Mzamba Fossil bedsProtected heritage site	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	7
Rocherpan Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	5
Amathole Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	EC Eastern Cape	4
Sodwana Bay State ForestForest reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	4
Umlalazi Nature ReserveProtected area	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	4
The Koppie Nature ReserveNature reserve	NC Northern Cape	3
Balule Nature ReserveProtected area	LP Limpopo	3
Namaqua National Park Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	NC Northern Cape	3
ǀAi-ǀAis/Richtersveld Transfrontier ParkTransfrontier area	NC Northern Cape	2
Bronkies Angling and Nature ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	2

By province

KwaZulu-Natal: 14 reserves
Western Cape: 10 reserves
Eastern Cape: 9 reserves
Mpumalanga: 3 reserves
Gauteng: 3 reserves
Northern Cape: 3 reserves
North West: 2 reserves
Limpopo: 2 reserves

Taxonomy

Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Scientific name: Actitis hypoleucos
GBIF taxon: 2481800
Wikidata: Q18850

More of the Scolopacidae family

Common Greenshank Little Stint Whimbrel Curlew Sandpiper Sanderling African Snipe Wood Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Ruff Marsh Sandpiper Bar-tailed Godwit Eurasian Curlew Terek Sandpiper

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.