When it is recorded
Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr7
May43
Jun8
Jul68
Aug382
Sep111
Oct6
Nov3
Dec1
GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).
Where it is recorded
| # | County | Nation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suffolk | England | 204 | |
| 2 | Lincolnshire | England | 191 | |
| 3 | Kent | England | 43 | |
| 4 | East Riding of Yorkshire | England | 40 | |
| 5 | Essex | England | 18 | |
| 6 | North Yorkshire | England | 14 | |
| 7 | Cornwall | England | 12 | |
| 8 | Scottish Borders | Scotland | 9 | |
| 9 | Norfolk | England | 7 | |
| 10 | Cambridgeshire | England | 6 | |
| 11 | Northamptonshire | England | 6 | |
| 12 | Rutland | England | 4 | |
| 13 | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | 4 | |
| 14 | Dorset | England | 2 | |
| 15 | Highland | Scotland | 2 |
592 England21 Scotland16 Wales1 Northern Ireland
Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 24 counties in all.
About this species
- Records since 2000
- 630
- Peak month
- August
- Counties with records
- 24
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- Scientific name
- Ciconia nigra
- Group
- Birds
- Most recorded in
- Suffolk, Lincolnshire
- Conservation designations
- Bern Convention, Birds Directive, Convention on Migratory Species, EU wildlife trade (CITES) annexes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Ciconiiformes
- Family
- Ciconiidae
- Genus
- Ciconia
- Name with authority
- Ciconia nigra (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Described
- 1758
- Contributing datasets
- 5
Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25398 · GBIF 2481909