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Long-tailed Tit

Aegithalos caudatus

593,820Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan66,018
Feb54,124
Mar65,462
Apr63,319
May51,186
Jun30,648
Jul26,301
Aug36,212
Sep43,130
Oct56,967
Nov50,086
Dec48,251

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England33,652
2Norfolk England26,071
3Suffolk England18,833
4Surrey England18,190
5Oxfordshire England15,617
6Kent England14,521
7Essex England11,117
8Dorset England9,855
9Nottinghamshire England9,766
10Lincolnshire England9,469
11Devon England8,594
12Cheshire East England8,129
13North Yorkshire England8,098
14Cornwall England8,095
15East Riding of Yorkshire England8,029
547,574 England28,504 Scotland15,435 Wales2,157 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
593,820
Peak month
January
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Aegithalos caudatus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
239,340
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Aegithalidae
Genus
Aegithalos
Name with authority
Aegithalos caudatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q170831 · GBIF 2495000