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Eurasian Jay

Garrulus glandarius

320,156Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
123Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan31,130
Feb20,021
Mar25,690
Apr35,250
May27,583
Jun21,099
Jul15,725
Aug18,202
Sep29,380
Oct41,312
Nov28,162
Dec25,034

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England21,752
2Surrey England17,453
3Cambridgeshire England13,341
4Suffolk England11,396
5Kent England11,138
6Essex England6,899
7Oxfordshire England5,941
8Cornwall England4,526
9Trafford England4,251
10Dorset England4,240
11Devon England3,968
12Cheshire East England3,894
13Nottinghamshire England3,337
14North Yorkshire England3,261
15Rutland England2,800
300,360 England8,931 Scotland9,331 Wales1,354 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
320,156
Peak month
October
Counties with records
123
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Garrulus glandarius
Also known as
Jay
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
75,617
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
Genus
Garrulus
Name with authority
Garrulus glandarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25354 · GBIF 5229493