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Eurasian Bullfinch

Pyrrhula pyrrhula

194,195Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
126Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan25,720
Feb16,014
Mar17,284
Apr19,347
May18,359
Jun15,218
Jul13,226
Aug13,011
Sep9,232
Oct12,832
Nov14,948
Dec16,927

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England6,370
2City of Edinburgh Scotland5,926
3Norfolk England5,839
4Surrey England4,909
5North Yorkshire England4,880
6Devon England4,166
7Oxfordshire England3,944
8Dorset England3,764
9Trafford England3,738
10Cornwall England3,689
11Kent England3,544
12Highland Scotland3,305
13Suffolk England3,228
14East Riding of Yorkshire England2,832
15Lincolnshire England2,592
159,038 England24,914 Scotland8,244 Wales1,890 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
194,195
Peak month
January
Counties with records
126
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Also known as
Bullfinch
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
146,395
Conservation designations
Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
Genus
Pyrrhula
Name with authority
Pyrrhula pyrrhula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25382 · GBIF 2494543