Curlew Sandpiper

Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763) — also called curlew sanspiper. Occurrence records of the Curlew Sandpiper are shared on GBIF from around 25 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Table Mountain National Park (1 092 records), in 4 provinces.

IUCN: VulnerableScolopacidae

25reserves with records

5 174records around them

4provinces

VUIUCN category

Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) — Photo: Marek Szczepanek · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
Table Mountain National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	1 092
Langebaan Lagoon Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	874
West Coast National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	842
Raapenberg Bird SanctuaryGame reserve	WC Western Cape	654
Grysbok ParkNature reserve	WC Western Cape	364
De Mond Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	315
Kabeljous Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	244
Steenbok Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	144
Rocherpan Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	109
Macassar Dunes Conservation AreaProtected area	WC Western Cape	94
Featherbed Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	88
Marcus Island Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	68
Lambert’s Bay Bird Island Nature ReserveGame reserve	WC Western Cape	48
Kowie Local Authority Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	41
Lutzville Conservation AreaNature reserve	WC Western Cape	40
Cape Recife Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	39
Sixteen Mile Beach Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	32
Fort D' Acre ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	25
Rocherpan Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	21
Postberg Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	19
Cape Columbine Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	6
Namaqua National Park Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	NC Northern Cape	5
Sodwana Bay State ForestForest reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	4
Walker Bay Whale SanctuaryMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	4
Cape Vidal State ForestForest reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	2

By province

Western Cape: 18 reserves
Eastern Cape: 4 reserves
KwaZulu-Natal: 2 reserves
Northern Cape: 1 reserve

Taxonomy

Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Scientific name: Calidris ferruginea
GBIF taxon: 2481741
Wikidata: Q62345

More of the Scolopacidae family

Common Sandpiper Common Greenshank Little Stint Whimbrel 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.