Sandpipers & Snipes in Canada
Our list for Canada has 31 sandpipers & snipes recorded regularly there: 18 summer visitors, 3 winter visitors and 10 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Canada in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 31, most common first
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemasticaSummer visitorRare36–42 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollisPassage migrantRare18–20 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Grey PhalaropePhalaropus fulicariusPassage migrantRare20–22 cmRegularly Jun–Dec
RuffCalidris pugnaxSummer visitorRare20–32 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaPassage migrantRare18–23 cmRegularly Sep
Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminataPassage migrantRare17–22 cmRegularly Sep–Nov
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponicaPassage migrantRare37–41 cmRegularly May–Oct
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaPassage migrantRare40–44 cmRegularly Apr–May
Data: 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