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European Stonechat

Saxicola rubicola

226,385Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan20,047
Feb14,792
Mar16,651
Apr19,489
May22,944
Jun16,421
Jul12,707
Aug14,096
Sep20,198
Oct33,238
Nov19,690
Dec14,308

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Suffolk England12,989
2Cornwall England10,468
3Dorset England9,715
4Norfolk England9,104
5Cambridgeshire England8,734
6Surrey England8,200
7Kent England8,068
8Devon England6,425
9Highland Scotland4,997
10East Riding of Yorkshire England4,882
11Isles of Scilly England4,219
12Pembrokeshire Wales4,038
13Gwynedd Wales3,592
14Somerset England3,426
15Essex England2,906
184,464 England21,527 Scotland18,170 Wales2,103 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
226,385
Peak month
October
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Saxicola rubicola
Also known as
Stonechat
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
44,144
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Saxicola
Name with authority
Saxicola rubicola (Linnaeus, 1766)
Described
1766
Contributing datasets
42

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q838665 · GBIF 4408759