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European Robin

Erithacus rubecula

1,461,364Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan151,781
Feb118,445
Mar144,525
Apr167,382
May153,280
Jun98,223
Jul71,499
Aug89,964
Sep117,945
Oct131,901
Nov104,511
Dec107,926

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England66,688
2Norfolk England54,776
3Surrey England45,028
4Suffolk England40,665
5Kent England37,342
6Devon England34,442
7Oxfordshire England33,168
8Cornwall England30,882
9South Ayrshire Scotland26,220
10Essex England24,383
11East Riding of Yorkshire England23,666
12Dorset England23,646
13Highland Scotland21,702
14Lincolnshire England20,915
15North Yorkshire England18,892
1,259,835 England136,341 Scotland51,689 Wales12,906 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
1,461,364
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Erithacus rubecula
Also known as
Robin
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
653,858
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Erithacus
Name with authority
Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
67

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25334 · GBIF 2492462