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Goldcrest

Regulus regulus

368,590Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan33,587
Feb26,790
Mar33,606
Apr34,368
May31,058
Jun23,308
Jul15,720
Aug19,138
Sep29,195
Oct53,420
Nov36,159
Dec29,735

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England17,208
2Devon England14,959
3Cambridgeshire England14,213
4Surrey England14,096
5Suffolk England10,981
6Oxfordshire England8,936
7Kent England8,869
8Cornwall England7,742
9East Riding of Yorkshire England7,057
10Highland Scotland6,698
11Dorset England6,584
12North Yorkshire England5,266
13Trafford England4,579
14Essex England4,476
15Lincolnshire England4,407
317,440 England33,397 Scotland14,210 Wales3,372 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
368,590
Peak month
October
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Regulus regulus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
214,289
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Regulidae
Genus
Regulus
Name with authority
Regulus regulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
56

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26657 · GBIF 2484596