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European Greenfinch

Chloris chloris

478,731Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan37,699
Feb38,245
Mar56,116
Apr67,026
May57,301
Jun42,635
Jul38,122
Aug30,065
Sep24,683
Oct32,553
Nov26,438
Dec25,012

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England27,783
2Norfolk England24,765
3Suffolk England12,464
4East Riding of Yorkshire England11,552
5Surrey England10,723
6Oxfordshire England9,964
7Dorset England9,645
8Lincolnshire England9,430
9Cornwall England9,143
10Kent England8,006
11Highland Scotland7,054
12Devon England6,842
13Nottinghamshire England6,550
14Essex England6,437
15Sefton England5,996
430,677 England34,080 Scotland11,961 Wales1,908 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
478,731
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Chloris chloris
Also known as
Greenfinch
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
352,828
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
Genus
Chloris
Name with authority
Chloris chloris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
53

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q27075785 · GBIF 5845582