Sandpipers & Snipes in Algeria
Our list for Algeria has 12 sandpipers & snipes recorded regularly there: 3 winter visitors, 8 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Algeria in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 12, most common first
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoWinter visitorCommon25–27 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresPassage migrantCommon21–24 cmRegularly Nov–Dec
RuffCalidris pugnaxPassage migrantCommon20–32 cmRegularly Sep–Dec
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucosWinter visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Wood SandpiperTringa glareolaPassage migrantCommon19–21 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
GreenshankTringa nebulariaPassage migrantUncommon30–35 cmRegularly Jan
SanderlingCalidris albaWinter visitorUncommon18–20 cmRegularly Dec–Feb
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaPassage migrantUncommon18–23 cmRegularly May
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusPassage migrantUncommon21–24 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Little StintCalidris minutaPassage migrantUncommon13–15 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
RedshankTringa totanusPassage migrantUncommon27–29 cmRegularly Apr
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusScarceUncommon40–46 cm
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made