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Common Raven

Corvus corax

180,453Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
125Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan14,352
Feb12,525
Mar16,304
Apr20,881
May17,850
Jun11,685
Jul11,820
Aug15,769
Sep17,632
Oct17,876
Nov11,818
Dec10,859

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England9,806
2Highland Scotland8,084
3Dorset England7,627
4Shetland Islands —6,909
5Devon England5,306
6Somerset England4,355
7Kent England4,019
8Gwynedd Wales3,501
9Cumbria England3,374
10Oxfordshire England3,140
11Argyll and Bute Scotland3,073
12Gloucestershire England2,962
13Orkney Islands Scotland2,805
14Worcestershire England2,672
15Pembrokeshire Wales2,592
126,238 England34,701 Scotland16,890 Wales2,437 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
180,453
Peak month
April
Counties with records
125
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Corvus corax
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
30,132
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
Genus
Corvus
Name with authority
Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25357 · GBIF 2482492