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Horned Grebe

Podiceps auritus

13,082Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
89Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan3,149
Feb1,996
Mar1,455
Apr552
May79
Jun41
Jul74
Aug179
Sep507
Oct1,406
Nov1,740
Dec1,814

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Rutland England1,085
2East Lothian Scotland941
3Highland Scotland906
4Essex England793
5Cambridgeshire England602
6Kent England517
7Shetland Islands —432
8Fife Scotland295
9Surrey England287
10Norfolk England244
11Dorset England244
12Leeds England196
13Argyll and Bute Scotland179
14Gwynedd Wales152
15Lincolnshire England143
8,695 England3,860 Scotland458 Wales60 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 89 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
13,082
Peak month
January
Counties with records
89
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Podiceps auritus
Also known as
Slavonian Grebe
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,822
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Birds Directive, Convention on Migratory Species, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Podicipediformes
Family
Podicipedidae
Genus
Podiceps
Name with authority
Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q192058 · GBIF 2482059