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Black Redstart

Phoenicurus ochruros

15,620Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
108Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan1,659
Feb956
Mar2,077
Apr1,893
May880
Jun501
Jul354
Aug361
Sep605
Oct3,430
Nov1,804
Dec1,093

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England1,594
2Isles of Scilly England1,469
3Cornwall England1,258
4Suffolk England1,026
5East Riding of Yorkshire England878
6Norfolk England751
7Dorset England719
8Cambridgeshire England372
9Pembrokeshire Wales358
10Shetland Islands —355
11Devon England232
12North Yorkshire England182
13Oxfordshire England164
14Sefton England133
15Surrey England130
13,975 England805 Scotland788 Wales43 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 108 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
15,620
Peak month
October
Counties with records
108
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Phoenicurus ochruros
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,684
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Phoenicurus
Name with authority
Phoenicurus ochruros (S.G.Gmelin, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26755 · GBIF 5739315