BTO - Breeding Birds of the Wider Countryside: Common Sandpiper

COMMON SANDPIPER
Actitis hypoleucos

Conservation Listings

Unlisted/Green
Biodiversity Steering Group: Unlisted

Long term trend

UK: Shallow decline

Status Summary

The WBS is ideal for monitoring the breeding Common Sandpiper population, and it shows a decline from 1985 onwards (after a more gradual increase) that has yet to be explained. No BTO Alert is triggered by this decline because no year used in an inter-annual comparison falls near the population peak.

Table of population changes for Common Sandpiper

Source Period
(yrs) Years Plots
(n) Change
(%) Lower
limit Upper
limit Alert Comment

WBS waterways 24 1975-1999 27 -18 -36 -4

10 1989-1999 30 -23 -34 -15

5 1994-1999 28 -9 -19 -1

BBS UK 6 1994-2000 63 -1 -22 27

BBS England 6 1994-2000 23 4 -33 62 Small sample

BBS Scotland 6 1994-2000 37 -3 -31 37 Small sample

The Breeding Bird Survey is jointly funded by BTO, JNCC and RSPB

Table of productivity information for Common Sandpiper

Variable Period
(yrs) Years Mean
annual
sample Trend Predicted
in first year Predicted
in last year Change Comment

Clutch size 31 1968-1999 12 Linear decline 3.96 eggs 3.74 eggs -0.22 eggs Small sample

Daily failure rate (eggs) 31 1968-1999 14 None Small sample

Insufficient data on brood size
available for this species

Insufficient data on nestling failure
available for this species

Insufficient data on laying date
available for this species

Insufficient data on CES
available for this species

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This report should be cited as:
Baillie, S.R., Crick, H.Q.P., Balmer, D.E., Beaven, L.P., Downie, I.S., Freeman, S.N., Leech, D.I., Marchant, J.H.,
Noble, D.G., Raven, M.J., Simpkin, A.P., Thewlis, R.M. and Wernham, C.V. (2002) Breeding Birds in the Wider
Countryside: their conservation status 2001. BTO Research Report No. 278. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends)

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