Sandpipers & Snipes in New Zealand
Our list for New Zealand has 10 sandpipers & snipes recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 8 summer visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in New Zealand in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 10, most common first
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponicaResidentCommon37–41 cmRecorded all year
Red KnotCalidris canutusSummer visitorUncommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresSummer visitorUncommon21–24 cmRecorded all year
Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminataSummer visitorUncommon17–22 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusSummer visitorRare40–46 cmRecorded all year
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosSummer visitorRare19–23 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaSummer visitorRare18–23 cmRegularly Aug–May
SanderlingCalidris albaSummer visitorRare18–20 cmRegularly Nov–Jul
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemasticaPassage migrantRare36–42 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaSummer visitorRare40–44 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
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