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Common Chiffchaff

Phylloscopus collybita

669,402Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan9,840
Feb7,546
Mar68,919
Apr141,247
May117,212
Jun79,184
Jul52,621
Aug55,627
Sep67,633
Oct44,374
Nov13,453
Dec9,544

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England34,403
2Norfolk England27,633
3Suffolk England23,813
4Kent England21,049
5Surrey England19,858
6Cornwall England17,079
7Devon England16,858
8Oxfordshire England15,991
9Dorset England15,817
10East Riding of Yorkshire England13,441
11North Yorkshire England12,657
12Essex England11,291
13Lincolnshire England10,498
14Somerset England9,997
15Gloucestershire England8,101
603,939 England39,214 Scotland24,579 Wales1,501 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
669,402
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Phylloscopus collybita
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
334,132
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Phylloscopidae
Genus
Phylloscopus
Name with authority
Phylloscopus collybita (Vieillot, 1817)
Described
1817
Contributing datasets
61

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q185784 · GBIF 2493091