Species Detail - Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Birds of Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map
Calidris maritima
Purple Sandpiper
NBNSYS0000000167 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
camar
(Brünnich, 1764)
bird
Species
136
38
24
04/01/2003
24/11/2024
1 January (recorded in 2017)
30 December (recorded in 2019)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Birds of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima), accessed 12 May 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/155/Species/10079>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)