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Dunnock

Prunella modularis

855,945Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan84,084
Feb72,187
Mar97,651
Apr111,549
May93,471
Jun65,137
Jul48,168
Aug42,834
Sep51,780
Oct69,253
Nov57,177
Dec58,883

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England40,546
2Norfolk England37,227
3Suffolk England26,503
4Kent England24,800
5Surrey England24,289
6Cornwall England20,798
7East Riding of Yorkshire England19,861
8Oxfordshire England18,389
9South Ayrshire Scotland15,253
10Dorset England14,649
11Lincolnshire England14,415
12Essex England13,917
13Nottinghamshire England12,138
14Devon England12,025
15North Yorkshire England11,565
749,914 England69,030 Scotland30,627 Wales6,145 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
855,945
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Prunella modularis
Also known as
Hedge Accentor
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
502,599
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Prunellidae
Genus
Prunella
Name with authority
Prunella modularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
54

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26698 · GBIF 5231763