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Little Grebe

Tachybaptus ruficollis

299,502Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan31,243
Feb22,967
Mar28,886
Apr28,315
May22,733
Jun15,299
Jul18,652
Aug25,594
Sep29,019
Oct29,281
Nov23,701
Dec22,421

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England21,011
2Norfolk England10,206
3Suffolk England9,483
4Surrey England8,446
5Kent England8,333
6Lincolnshire England8,028
7Essex England7,846
8East Riding of Yorkshire England7,280
9Rutland England6,913
10Cornwall England4,530
11Leeds England4,458
12Thurrock England4,401
13Nottinghamshire England4,307
14Sefton England3,974
15Oxfordshire England3,716
267,994 England19,491 Scotland9,110 Wales2,832 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
299,502
Peak month
January
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Tachybaptus ruficollis
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
190,288
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Podicipediformes
Family
Podicipedidae
Genus
Tachybaptus
Name with authority
Tachybaptus ruficollis (Pallas, 1764)
Described
1764
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25421 · GBIF 2482048