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Common Crane

Grus grus

1,346Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
20Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan235
Feb204
Mar58
Apr33
May49
Jun25
Jul33
Aug166
Sep165
Oct125
Nov92
Dec149

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England738
2Cambridgeshire England180
3Norfolk England165
4Suffolk England56
5Lincolnshire England43
6Aberdeenshire Scotland17
7Doncaster England9
8Somerset England8
9Oxfordshire England5
10North Yorkshire England5
11East Riding of Yorkshire England4
12North Lincolnshire England4
13Shetland Islands —3
14Highland Scotland2
15Bath and North East Somerset England2
1,266 England19 Scotland1 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 20 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,346
Peak month
January
Counties with records
20
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Grus grus
Also known as
Crane
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
773
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, Convention on Migratory Species, Bern Convention, EU wildlife trade (CITES) annexes, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Gruiformes
Family
Gruidae
Genus
Grus
Name with authority
Grus grus (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 Q4764 · GBIF 2474950