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Lesser Whitethroat

Sylvia curruca

59,298Records since 2000
MayPeak month
110Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan38
Feb29
Mar33
Apr11,592
May20,268
Jun7,625
Jul3,269
Aug7,568
Sep6,223
Oct1,683
Nov89
Dec31

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England5,691
2Suffolk England3,988
3East Riding of Yorkshire England3,803
4Kent England3,460
5Norfolk England2,812
6Essex England2,319
7Shetland Islands —1,803
8Oxfordshire England1,672
9Lincolnshire England1,427
10Rutland England933
11North Yorkshire England922
12Thurrock England796
13Dorset England758
14Nottinghamshire England674
15Surrey England567
55,281 England2,897 Scotland1,076 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 110 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
59,298
Peak month
May
Counties with records
110
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Sylvia curruca
Group
Birds
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Sylviidae
Genus
Sylvia
Name with authority
Sylvia curruca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q206089 · GBIF 2492960