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Domestic goat

Capra hircus

508Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
20Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan28
Feb34
Mar81
Apr58
May48
Jun32
Jul45
Aug42
Sep31
Oct50
Nov31
Dec27

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland152
2Dumfries and Galloway Scotland81
3Argyll and Bute Scotland67
4Devon England52
5Gwynedd Wales29
6Conwy Wales29
7Somerset England12
8Stirling Scotland12
9Scottish Borders Scotland11
10Perth and Kinross Scotland7
11Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland4
12Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland2
13Surrey England1
14Dorset England1
15Essex England1
82 England359 Scotland59 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 20 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
508
Peak month
March
Counties with records
20
Scientific name
Capra hircus
Group
Mammals
NBN Atlas records since 2000
612
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Bovidae
Genus
Capra
Name with authority
Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q45320358 · GBIF 2441056