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Osprey

Pandion haliaetus

28,915Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
121Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb14
Mar873
Apr4,661
May4,638
Jun3,775
Jul3,921
Aug6,115
Sep3,943
Oct793
Nov59
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Rutland England5,602
2Highland Scotland3,828
3Dorset England1,537
4Perth and Kinross Scotland1,321
5Cumbria England1,319
6Norfolk England485
7Aberdeenshire Scotland469
8Cambridgeshire England467
9Suffolk England415
10Powys Wales415
11Angus Scotland403
12Moray Scotland372
13Gwynedd Wales347
14Fife Scotland334
15Devon England324
18,409 England9,083 Scotland1,324 Wales44 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
28,915
Peak month
August
Counties with records
121
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Pandion haliaetus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,113
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, Convention on Migratory Species, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, EU wildlife trade (CITES) annexes, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Accipitriformes
Family
Pandionidae
Genus
Pandion
Name with authority
Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25332 · GBIF 2480726