Sandpipers & Snipes in Norway
Our list for Norway has 28 sandpipers & snipes recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 20 summer visitors, 5 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Norway in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 28, most common first
Grey PhalaropePhalaropus fulicariusPassage migrantRare20–22 cmRegularly Oct
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosPassage migrantRare19–23 cmRegularly May–Sep
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesPassage migrantRare23–27 cmRegularly May–Jun
Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollisPassage migrantRare18–20 cmRegularly Sep
Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceusScarceRare27–30 cm
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Temminck's Stint 13–15 cm
- Little Stint 13–15 cm
- Jack Snipe 17–19 cm
- Red-necked Phalarope 18–19 cm
- Common Sandpiper 18–20 cm
- Dunlin 16–22 cm
- Sanderling 18–20 cm
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper 18–20 cm
- Wood Sandpiper 19–21 cm
- Curlew Sandpiper 18–23 cm
- Purple Sandpiper 20–22 cm
- Grey Phalarope 20–22 cm
- Pectoral Sandpiper 19–23 cm
- Green Sandpiper 21–24 cm
- Ruddy Turnstone 21–24 cm
- Red Knot 23–26 cm
- Lesser Yellowlegs 23–27 cm
- Ruff 20–32 cm
- Common Snipe 25–27 cm
- Redshank 27–29 cm
- Long-billed Dowitcher 27–30 cm
- Spotted Redshank 29–31 cm
- Greenshank 30–35 cm
- Eurasian Woodcock 33–38 cm
- Bar-tailed Godwit 37–41 cm
- Black-tailed Godwit 40–44 cm
- Whimbrel 40–46 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