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Eurasian Blue Tit

Cyanistes caeruleus

1,283,149Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan140,659
Feb109,736
Mar131,629
Apr153,894
May122,429
Jun88,528
Jul72,011
Aug84,985
Sep90,775
Oct99,771
Nov88,400
Dec96,712

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England61,692
2Norfolk England56,441
3Surrey England43,332
4Suffolk England41,560
5Kent England33,011
6Oxfordshire England29,663
7Essex England24,256
8Devon England24,143
9Cornwall England22,262
10South Ayrshire Scotland21,415
11East Riding of Yorkshire England21,178
12Lincolnshire England19,765
13Dorset England18,024
14North Yorkshire England17,545
15Nottinghamshire England16,733
1,132,868 England102,504 Scotland39,325 Wales8,189 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
1,283,149
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Cyanistes caeruleus
Also known as
Blue Tit
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
782,640
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Paridae
Genus
Cyanistes
Name with authority
Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
59

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25404 · GBIF 2487879