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Bluethroat

Luscinia svecica

1,806Records since 2000
MayPeak month
35Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb51
Mar130
Apr101
May501
Jun263
Jul36
Aug13
Sep281
Oct392
Nov34
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Shetland Islands —501
2Gloucestershire England372
3Isles of Scilly England109
4East Riding of Yorkshire England101
5Orkney Islands Scotland66
6Norfolk England65
7Lincolnshire England64
8Cambridgeshire England53
9Suffolk England45
10Kent England32
11North Yorkshire England29
12Oxfordshire England28
13East Lothian Scotland28
14North Tyneside England22
15Dorset England19
1,165 England636 Scotland5 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 35 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,806
Peak month
May
Counties with records
35
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Luscinia svecica
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
102
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Birds Directive, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Luscinia
Name with authority
Luscinia svecica (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 Q26578 · GBIF 4408732