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Cattle Egret

Bubulcus ibis

27,274Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
86Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan2,550
Feb1,803
Mar1,947
Apr2,239
May1,941
Jun1,553
Jul1,739
Aug2,860
Sep3,349
Oct3,497
Nov2,028
Dec1,767

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England3,974
2Kent England2,572
3Somerset England2,137
4Norfolk England1,887
5Oxfordshire England1,156
6Essex England907
7Dorset England879
8Lincolnshire England744
9Leeds England712
10Gloucestershire England657
11Suffolk England576
12Cornwall England563
13Bath and North East Somerset England484
14Devon England460
15Nottinghamshire England328
26,912 England113 Scotland226 Wales19 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 86 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
27,274
Peak month
October
Counties with records
86
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Bubulcus ibis
Group
Birds
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Pelecaniformes
Family
Ardeidae
Genus
Bubulcus
Name with authority
Bubulcus ibis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
9

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q132669 · GBIF 2480830