East Ayrshire

74,410Records since 2000

3,157Species recorded

Facts

Records since 2000: 74,410
Species recorded: 3,157
Nation: Scotland
Type of area: Unitary District

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

Most recorded species in East Ayrshire

All species with 50+ records

#	Species	Group	Peak month	Records here
1	Soprano Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus	Mammals	August	5,358
2	Dangling Swamp-lover Helophilus pendulus	True flies	September	1,967
3	Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus	Mammals	July	1,938
4	Eastern gray squirrel Sciurus carolinensis	Mammals	October	1,845
5	Carrion Crow Corvus corone	Birds	April	809
6	Culicoides impunctatus	True flies	July	778
7	Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs	Birds	April	707
8	Contacyphon hilaris	Beetles	June	559
9	Western Jackdaw Coloeus monedula	Birds	May	510
10	Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula	Birds	May	506
11	European Robin Erithacus rubecula	Birds	April	506
12	Mallard Anas platyrhynchos	Birds	April	463
13	Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus	Birds	April	458
14	Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes	Birds	April	445
15	Black grouse Lyrurus tetrix	Birds	April	434
16	Common Buzzard Buteo buteo	Birds	April	417
17	Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus	Birds	April	414
18	Psychoda phalaenoides	True flies	November	410
19	Great Tit Parus major	Birds	April	398
20	Common Green Grasshopper Omocestus viridulus	Grasshoppers and crickets	July	377
21	Herring Gull Larus argentatus	Birds	April	368
22	Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica	Birds	May	356
23	Seven-spot Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata	Beetles	July	346
24	Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus	Birds	April	338
25	House Sparrow Passer domesticus	Birds	May	336
26	Green-veined White Pieris napi	Butterflies and moths	July	326
27	Limnophyes asquamatus	True flies	September	315
28	Limnophyes asquamatus	True flies	September	298
29	European Starling Sturnus vulgaris	Birds	May	294
30	Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis	Birds	October	293
31	Gray/Purple Heron Ardea cinerea	Birds	May	285
32	Heath Plait-moss Hypnum jutlandicum	Mosses	July	281
33	Lesser noctule Nyctalus leisleri	Mammals	June	274
34	Hare's-tail Cottongrass Eriophorum vaginatum	Flowering plants	August	270
35	Red-stemmed Feather-moss Pleurozium schreberi	Mosses	July	269
36	Mute Swan Cygnus olor	Birds	April	268
37	Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus	Birds	May	255
38	Eurasian Magpie Pica pica	Birds	April	253
39	Rook Corvus frugilegus	Birds	April	252
40	Tapered Drone Fly Eristalis pertinax	True flies	April	241
41	Sycamore [tree] Acer pseudoplatanus	Flowering plants	May	240
42	Canada Goose (canadensis Group) Branta canadensis	Birds	April	229
43	Springy Turf-moss Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus	Mosses	March	226
44	Cross-leaved Heath Erica tetralix	Flowering plants	July	224
45	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula	Dragonflies and damselflies	May	220
46	Common Swift Apus apus	Birds	June	220
47	Song Thrush Turdus philomelos	Birds	May	220
48	Woodland Red Ant Myrmica ruginodis	Bees, wasps and ants	August	214
49	White Wagtail Motacilla alba	Birds	April	210
50	Coal Tit Periparus ater	Birds	January	209
51	Purple Moor-grass Molinia caerulea	Flowering plants	June	209
52	Heather Calluna vulgaris	Flowering plants	August	208
53	Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus	Birds	October	208
54	Molophilus occultus	True flies	July	204
55	Eristalis abusivus	True flies	August	197
56	Sylvicola punctatus	True flies	August	193
57	Rhingia campestris	True flies	May	191
58	Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris	Mammals	September	187
59	Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus	Birds	August	185
60	Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula	Birds	April	185