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Hawfinch

Coccothraustes coccothraustes

9,785Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
94Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan1,995
Feb1,619
Mar1,353
Apr566
May398
Jun242
Jul89
Aug96
Sep228
Oct1,263
Nov1,090
Dec758

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England1,464
2Gloucestershire England585
3Surrey England427
4Shetland Islands —360
5Nottinghamshire England309
6Kent England254
7East Riding of Yorkshire England254
8Cambridgeshire England250
9Cumbria England218
10Suffolk England190
11Oxfordshire England127
12Dorset England120
13Essex England118
14Conwy Wales118
15North Yorkshire England110
8,777 England640 Scotland365 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,785
Peak month
January
Counties with records
94
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Coccothraustes coccothraustes
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,957
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species, Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
Genus
Coccothraustes
Name with authority
Coccothraustes coccothraustes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q174088 · GBIF 2494329