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Great Crested Grebe

Podiceps cristatus

360,897Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
125Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan32,734
Feb27,032
Mar38,546
Apr45,821
May39,367
Jun25,447
Jul24,785
Aug26,862
Sep25,848
Oct25,413
Nov24,629
Dec23,572

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England21,204
2Kent England15,776
3Rutland England11,351
4Essex England9,945
5Surrey England9,943
6Norfolk England9,361
7Nottinghamshire England8,600
8Suffolk England8,331
9Oxfordshire England7,663
10Leeds England6,540
11Lincolnshire England6,482
12Somerset England5,737
13North Yorkshire England5,333
14Cheshire East England5,328
15Dorset England4,777
341,910 England7,628 Scotland9,595 Wales1,687 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
360,897
Peak month
April
Counties with records
125
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Podiceps cristatus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
200,354
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Podicipediformes
Family
Podicipedidae
Genus
Podiceps
Name with authority
Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25422 · GBIF 2482054