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Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus

69,886Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan10,743
Feb8,208
Mar1,870
Apr273
May230
Jun271
Jul315
Aug9,855
Sep10,498
Oct11,169
Nov7,958
Dec7,176

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England3,140
2Norfolk England2,897
3Cambridgeshire England2,894
4East Riding of Yorkshire England2,083
5Lincolnshire England1,814
6Cornwall England1,618
7Dorset England1,602
8Gloucestershire England1,602
9Somerset England1,241
10Essex England1,087
11Devon England1,074
12Suffolk England1,063
13North Yorkshire England991
14Rutland England931
15Isles of Scilly England930
60,639 England5,000 Scotland3,374 Wales544 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
69,886
Peak month
October
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Falco peregrinus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
23,208
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species, Birds Directive, Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, EU wildlife trade (CITES) annexes, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Falconiformes
Family
Falconidae
Genus
Falco
Name with authority
Falco peregrinus Tunstall, 1771
Described
1771
Contributing datasets
49

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q30535 · GBIF 2481047