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Common Grasshopper-Warbler

Locustella naevia

23,015Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
122Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb2
Mar7
Apr7,835
May6,655
Jun3,089
Jul2,506
Aug919
Sep513
Oct97
Nov2
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England1,872
2Norfolk England1,163
3Suffolk England994
4Oxfordshire England686
5East Riding of Yorkshire England567
6Highland Scotland560
7Cornwall England439
8Cumbria England420
9Wirral England389
10Argyll and Bute Scotland368
11Dorset England329
12Lincolnshire England303
13Kent England254
14East Lothian Scotland252
15Thurrock England252
18,094 England3,378 Scotland1,191 Wales339 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 122 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
23,015
Peak month
April
Counties with records
122
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Locustella naevia
Also known as
Grasshopper warbler
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
29,819
Conservation designations
Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Scottish Biodiversity List, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Locustellidae
Genus
Locustella
Name with authority
Locustella naevia (Boddaert, 1783)
Described
1783
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q208710 · GBIF 2493548