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Coal Tit

Periparus ater

365,786Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan42,963
Feb32,423
Mar38,161
Apr39,052
May28,880
Jun26,033
Jul20,778
Aug23,965
Sep25,291
Oct29,157
Nov27,416
Dec29,047

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England17,338
2Devon England16,657
3Highland Scotland13,564
4Surrey England13,408
5Suffolk England10,327
6Cambridgeshire England8,272
7North Yorkshire England7,522
8Cumbria England6,701
9Dorset England5,898
10Cornwall England5,876
11City of Edinburgh Scotland5,820
12Trafford England4,920
13Oxfordshire England4,738
14Cheshire East England4,330
15Kent England4,141
293,593 England52,962 Scotland12,817 Wales6,256 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
365,786
Peak month
January
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Periparus ater
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
233,685
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Paridae
Genus
Periparus
Name with authority
Periparus ater (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q191096 · GBIF 2487871