Sandpipers & Snipes in Limerick
Our list for Limerick has 8 sandpipers & snipes recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 1 winter visitor, 2 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
All 8, most common first
RedshankTringa totanusWinter visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Sep–Feb
CurlewNumenius arquataResidentCommon50–60 cmRegularly May–Sep
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucosPassage migrantCommon18–20 cmRegularly Jul–Jan
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoScarceCommon25–27 cmRegularly Nov
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaResidentCommon40–44 cmRegularly Sep
GreenshankTringa nebulariaPassage migrantCommon30–35 cmRegularly Sep
DunlinCalidris alpinaScarceUncommon16–22 cm
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresScarceUncommon21–24 cm
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Common Sandpiper 18–20 cm
- Dunlin 16–22 cm
- Ruddy Turnstone 21–24 cm
- Common Snipe 25–27 cm
- Redshank 27–29 cm
- Greenshank 30–35 cm
- Black-tailed Godwit 40–44 cm
- Curlew 50–60 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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