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Fallow deer

Dama dama

15,521Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
88Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan1,129
Feb1,059
Mar1,071
Apr1,224
May1,223
Jun1,067
Jul1,050
Aug1,033
Sep1,391
Oct2,277
Nov1,356
Dec880

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Nottingham England1,074
2Dorset England841
3Gloucestershire England678
4Suffolk England553
5Worcestershire England394
6Perth and Kinross Scotland392
7Devon England378
8Kent England356
9Essex England330
10Oxfordshire England319
11Cumbria England310
12Cambridgeshire England221
13Herefordshire, County of England212
14Trafford England120
15Nottinghamshire England99
9,445 England774 Scotland197 Wales40 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 88 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
15,521
Peak month
October
Counties with records
88
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Dama dama
Group
Mammals
NBN Atlas records since 2000
12,318
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Global Red List (JNCC), GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Cervidae
Genus
Dama
Name with authority
Dama dama (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159857 · GBIF 5220136