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Common Redpoll

Acanthis flammea

78,542Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
125Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan8,667
Feb5,974
Mar7,519
Apr7,599
May5,931
Jun3,922
Jul3,103
Aug1,630
Sep3,983
Oct13,569
Nov9,074
Dec6,508

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland5,067
2Norfolk England3,111
3Surrey England2,638
4Shetland Islands —2,404
5Cambridgeshire England2,386
6Suffolk England2,119
7East Riding of Yorkshire England1,892
8Kent England1,555
9Cumbria England1,530
10North Yorkshire England1,463
11Argyll and Bute Scotland1,224
12South Ayrshire Scotland1,180
13Nottinghamshire England914
14Doncaster England877
15Lincolnshire England800
57,091 England17,979 Scotland2,069 Wales1,370 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
78,542
Peak month
October
Counties with records
125
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Acanthis flammea
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
190
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
Genus
Acanthis
Name with authority
Acanthis flammea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q20754771 · GBIF 5231630