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Firecrest

Regulus ignicapilla

33,295Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
93Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan2,771
Feb2,377
Mar3,760
Apr3,264
May2,905
Jun1,736
Jul713
Aug1,048
Sep2,233
Oct6,370
Nov3,515
Dec2,494

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England3,421
2Kent England3,033
3Surrey England2,068
4Dorset England1,929
5Norfolk England1,453
6Devon England1,252
7Suffolk England1,110
8Isles of Scilly England1,068
9East Riding of Yorkshire England541
10Gloucestershire England445
11Cambridgeshire England403
12Oxfordshire England328
13Somerset England298
14Essex England290
15Pembrokeshire Wales171
32,550 England137 Scotland596 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
33,295
Peak month
October
Counties with records
93
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Regulus ignicapilla
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
14,010
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Regulidae
Genus
Regulus
Name with authority
Regulus ignicapilla (Temminck, 1820)
Described
1820
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q27471 · GBIF 6093527