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Common Chaffinch

Fringilla coelebs

844,027Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan83,311
Feb68,266
Mar90,943
Apr109,461
May105,071
Jun72,167
Jul39,909
Aug38,562
Sep43,832
Oct68,448
Nov60,712
Dec59,128

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England40,647
2Norfolk England38,105
3Suffolk England26,527
4Highland Scotland25,894
5Kent England25,167
6Cornwall England23,084
7East Riding of Yorkshire England18,696
8Oxfordshire England17,848
9Surrey England17,134
10Devon England17,086
11Lincolnshire England16,866
12North Yorkshire England15,692
13Dorset England15,570
14Cumbria England13,141
15Essex England11,282
695,982 England110,158 Scotland28,782 Wales8,751 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
844,027
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Fringilla coelebs
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
495,073
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
Genus
Fringilla
Name with authority
Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
63

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25383 · GBIF 2494422