Derry City and Strabane

18,863Records since 2000

1,851Species recorded

1,238 km²Area

150,679Population

Facts

Records since 2000: 18,863
Species recorded: 1,851
Area: 1,238 km²
Population: 150,679 (1 January 2018)
Nation: Northern Ireland
Type of area: District

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15213714

Most recorded species in Derry City and Strabane

All species with 50+ records

#	Species	Group	Peak month	Records here
1	European flounder Platichthys flesus	Fish	March	736
2	Green-veined White Pieris napi	Butterflies and moths	July	527
3	Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus	Butterflies and moths	July	525
4	Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria	Butterflies and moths	August	485
5	Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina	Butterflies and moths	July	308
6	European otter Lutra lutra	Mammals	May	243
7	Common Goby Pomatoschistus microps	Fish	September	234
8	Peacock Aglais io	Butterflies and moths	April	216
9	Sand Goby Pomatoschistus minutus	Fish	September	210
10	Eurasian Magpie Pica pica	Birds	April	207
11	European smelt, Smelt Osmerus eperlanus	Fish	September	186
12	Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus	Birds	April	186
13	Western Jackdaw Coloeus monedula	Birds	May	173
14	European Eel Anguilla anguilla	Fish	July	166
15	Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae	Butterflies and moths	July	165
16	Indian Balsam Impatiens glandulifera	Flowering plants	August	161
17	European Robin Erithacus rubecula	Birds	April	132
18	Japanese Knotweed Reynoutria japonica	Flowering plants	June	127
19	Rook Corvus frugilegus	Birds	April	126
20	Small White Pieris rapae	Butterflies and moths	August	121
21	Hooded Crow Corvus cornix	Birds	May	121
22	Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula	Birds	May	119
23	Three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus	Fish	September	116
24	Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines	Butterflies and moths	May	115
25	European Starling Sturnus vulgaris	Birds	May	115
26	Long-beaked Water Feather-moss Rhynchostegium riparioides	Mosses	August	106
27	Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus	Birds	January	104
28	Rock Pigeon Columba livia	Birds	April	102
29	Painted Lady Vanessa cardui	Butterflies and moths	August	99
30	Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes	Birds	April	98
31	Dangling Swamp-lover Helophilus pendulus	True flies	September	97
32	Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs	Birds	April	94
33	Greater Water-moss Fontinalis antipyretica	Mosses	July	92
34	St Winifrid's Moss Chiloscyphus polyanthos	Liverworts	July	90
35	Daubenton's Bat Myotis daubentonii	Mammals	August	85
36	Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus	Birds	April	84
37	Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris	Mammals	September	82
38	Common sole, Sole Solea solea	Fish	September	79
39	Cladophora glomerata	Seaweeds and algae	August	74
40	Eastern gray squirrel Sciurus carolinensis	Mammals	October	73
41	River Feather-moss Brachythecium rivulare	Mosses	April	72
42	Herring Gull Larus argentatus	Birds	April	70
43	Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus	Birds	May	70
44	Kneiff's Feather-moss Leptodictyum riparium	Mosses	August	68
45	Sea trout, Brown trout Salmo trutta	Fish	August	68
46	Large White Pieris brassicae	Butterflies and moths	July	66
47	European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis	Birds	April	66
48	Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica	Birds	May	64
49	Great Tit Parus major	Birds	April	64
50	Common Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha	Liverworts	April	63
51	House Sparrow Passer domesticus	Birds	May	62
52	Rusty Feather-moss Sciuro-hypnum plumosum	Mosses	July	61
53	Tapered Drone Fly Eristalis pertinax	True flies	April	60
54	Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta	Butterflies and moths	July	60
55	White Wagtail Motacilla alba	Birds	April	60
56	Gray/Purple Heron Ardea cinerea	Birds	May	60
57	Common Swift Apus apus	Birds	June	58
58	Crescent-cup Liverwort Lunularia cruciata	Liverworts	March	58
59	Codriophorus acicularis	Mosses	July	58
60	Brook-side Feather-moss Hygroamblystegium fluviatile	Mosses	August	57