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Lapland Longspur

Calcarius lapponicus

4,008Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
59Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan322
Feb190
Mar275
Apr131
May20
Jun0
Jul1
Aug19
Sep894
Oct1,474
Nov547
Dec135

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England783
2Shetland Islands —490
3East Riding of Yorkshire England317
4Isles of Scilly England308
5North Yorkshire England298
6Orkney Islands Scotland200
7Cambridgeshire England196
8Cornwall England134
9Kent England133
10Suffolk England84
11Lincolnshire England84
12Surrey England82
13Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland79
14Pembrokeshire Wales68
15Wirral England38
2,992 England858 Scotland143 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 59 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,008
Peak month
October
Counties with records
59
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Calcarius lapponicus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
334
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Calcariidae
Genus
Calcarius
Name with authority
Calcarius lapponicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
4

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q208703 · GBIF 2491678