When it is recorded
Jan113
Feb74
Mar45
Apr19
May24
Jun15
Jul7
Aug259
Sep148
Oct112
Nov79
Dec61
GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).
Where it is recorded
| # | County | Nation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cambridgeshire | England | 679 | |
| 2 | Lincolnshire | England | 65 | |
| 3 | Somerset | England | 21 | |
| 4 | Cheshire East | England | 20 | |
| 5 | Medway | England | 16 | |
| 6 | Rotherham | England | 13 | |
| 7 | Gloucestershire | England | 12 | |
| 8 | Cornwall | England | 10 | |
| 9 | Nottinghamshire | England | 10 | |
| 10 | Kent | England | 8 | |
| 11 | Doncaster | England | 8 | |
| 12 | Shetland Islands | — | 7 | |
| 13 | Devon | England | 6 | |
| 14 | Carmarthenshire | Wales | 6 | |
| 15 | Renfrewshire | Scotland | 5 |
928 England18 Scotland10 Wales
Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 30 counties in all.
About this species
- Records since 2000
- 956
- Peak month
- August
- Counties with records
- 30
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- Scientific name
- Himantopus himantopus
- Group
- Birds
- Most recorded in
- Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire
- Conservation designations
- Convention on Migratory Species, Birds Directive, Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Birds of Conservation Concern
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Recurvirostridae
- Genus
- Himantopus
- Name with authority
- Himantopus himantopus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Described
- 1758
- Contributing datasets
- 7
Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q178821 · GBIF 5229126