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Common Toad

Bufo bufo

23,841Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
114Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan115
Feb957
Mar3,867
Apr3,216
May3,101
Jun2,955
Jul2,982
Aug2,747
Sep1,967
Oct959
Nov248
Dec86

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland1,508
2North Yorkshire England552
3Norfolk England551
4Cumbria England478
5Powys Wales471
6Argyll and Bute Scotland456
7Worcestershire England449
8Cornwall England404
9Devon England401
10City of Edinburgh Scotland332
11Cambridgeshire England326
12Somerset England289
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland285
14Pembrokeshire Wales270
15Swansea Wales262
16,715 England4,652 Scotland2,277 Wales1 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
23,841
Peak month
March
Counties with records
114
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Bufo bufo
Group
Amphibians
NBN Atlas records since 2000
21,027
Conservation designations
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Bern Convention, Global Red List (JNCC), Scottish Biodiversity List, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Amphibia
Order
Anura
Family
Bufonidae
Genus
Bufo
Name with authority
Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
52

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q146375 · GBIF 5217160