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Common Redstart

Phoenicurus phoenicurus

35,860Records since 2000
MayPeak month
114Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan20
Feb14
Mar91
Apr6,861
May8,912
Jun4,673
Jul2,650
Aug4,785
Sep5,383
Oct1,804
Nov30
Dec15

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England2,067
2East Riding of Yorkshire England1,791
3Norfolk England1,218
4North Yorkshire England1,200
5Devon England1,197
6Highland Scotland1,191
7Cumbria England1,084
8Shetland Islands —979
9Suffolk England929
10Dorset England823
11Gloucestershire England714
12Powys Wales700
13Kent England580
14Cambridgeshire England532
15Isles of Scilly England463
28,946 England4,012 Scotland2,892 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 114 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
35,860
Peak month
May
Counties with records
114
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Phoenicurus phoenicurus
Also known as
Redstart
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
36,252
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Phoenicurus
Name with authority
Phoenicurus phoenicurus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26620 · GBIF 5739317