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Great Tit

Parus major

1,058,095Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan114,656
Feb93,497
Mar116,052
Apr135,190
May106,101
Jun67,156
Jul54,277
Aug64,558
Sep73,870
Oct81,341
Nov70,165
Dec77,772

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England49,907
2Norfolk England42,396
3Surrey England36,842
4Suffolk England31,899
5Kent England27,926
6Oxfordshire England24,836
7East Riding of Yorkshire England18,410
8Essex England18,314
9Cornwall England17,834
10Lincolnshire England16,881
11Dorset England16,025
12Devon England15,813
13Nottinghamshire England14,080
14North Yorkshire England13,908
15Highland Scotland13,907
943,667 England76,003 Scotland30,764 Wales7,376 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
1,058,095
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Parus major
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
645,187
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Paridae
Genus
Parus
Name with authority
Parus major Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25485 · GBIF 9705453