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European rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus

61,227Records since 2000
MayPeak month
124Counties with records
EndangeredIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan2,209
Feb3,006
Mar5,022
Apr7,684
May8,667
Jun7,731
Jul6,097
Aug5,598
Sep4,603
Oct5,355
Nov2,655
Dec1,566

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England3,576
2North Yorkshire England2,446
3Cornwall England2,270
4Cambridgeshire England1,996
5East Riding of Yorkshire England1,816
6Gloucestershire England1,784
7Worcestershire England1,680
8Nottinghamshire England1,511
9Surrey England1,457
10Oxfordshire England1,346
11Devon England957
12Highland Scotland954
13Dorset England945
14York England855
15Sefton England844
49,942 England8,101 Scotland1,443 Wales286 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 124 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
61,227
Peak month
May
Counties with records
124
IUCN Red List
Endangered
Scientific name
Oryctolagus cuniculus
Group
Mammals
NBN Atlas records since 2000
119,685
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Global Red List (JNCC)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Lagomorpha
Family
Leporidae
Genus
Oryctolagus
Name with authority
Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
52

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25851 · GBIF 2436940