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Common House-Martin

Delichon urbicum

265,447Records since 2000
MayPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan14
Feb30
Mar530
Apr23,632
May53,118
Jun47,803
Jul43,267
Aug50,519
Sep38,406
Oct6,774
Nov207
Dec18

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England12,913
2Norfolk England10,852
3East Riding of Yorkshire England8,992
4Suffolk England7,361
5South Ayrshire Scotland6,543
6Highland Scotland6,482
7Kent England6,464
8North Yorkshire England6,426
9Surrey England5,302
10Dorset England5,269
11Lincolnshire England5,185
12Cornwall England5,149
13Devon England4,988
14Oxfordshire England4,900
15Cumbria England4,201
215,603 England33,902 Scotland12,588 Wales3,189 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
265,447
Peak month
May
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Delichon urbicum
Also known as
House Martin
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
60,275
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Hirundinidae
Genus
Delichon
Name with authority
Delichon urbicum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
50

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26055 · GBIF 2489214