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Northern Goshawk

Accipiter gentilis

538Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
21Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan26
Feb29
Mar72
Apr126
May63
Jun80
Jul21
Aug9
Sep10
Oct5
Nov38
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England250
2Powys Wales83
3Highland Scotland35
4Carmarthenshire Wales34
5Denbighshire Wales26
6Monmouthshire Wales20
7Wrexham Wales9
8Cambridgeshire England6
9Gloucestershire England4
10Gwynedd Wales4
11Herefordshire, County of England3
12Worcestershire England2
13North Yorkshire England1
14Nottinghamshire England1
15Sefton England1
275 England43 Scotland219 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 21 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
538
Peak month
April
Counties with records
21
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Accipiter gentilis
Group
Birds
Most recorded in
Devon, Powys
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Accipitriformes
Family
Accipitridae
Genus
Accipiter
Name with authority
Accipiter gentilis (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 Q25353 · GBIF 2480589