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Red-billed Chough

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

16,591Records since 2000
JunePeak month
34Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan437
Feb515
Mar1,027
Apr1,750
May1,973
Jun2,050
Jul1,900
Aug1,977
Sep1,911
Oct1,733
Nov577
Dec353

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England5,261
2Pembrokeshire Wales4,231
3Gwynedd Wales3,455
4Argyll and Bute Scotland600
5Conwy Wales520
6Swansea Wales429
7Ceredigion Wales376
8Isle of Anglesey Wales352
9Kent England116
10Carmarthenshire Wales81
11Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland72
12Dorset England16
13Cheshire East England16
14Devon England14
15North Yorkshire England11
5,573 England668 Scotland10,135 Wales185 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 34 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
16,591
Peak month
June
Counties with records
34
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,733
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, Birds Directive, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – Wales, Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
Genus
Pyrrhocorax
Name with authority
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q643836 · GBIF 2482552