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Red-breasted Goose

Branta ruficollis

1,944Records since 2000
FebruaryPeak month
41Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan377
Feb382
Mar188
Apr206
May115
Jun43
Jul20
Aug27
Sep114
Oct109
Nov168
Dec195

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England471
2Lincolnshire England202
3Essex England137
4Suffolk England77
5Cambridgeshire England71
6Gloucestershire England71
7Argyll and Bute Scotland46
8Oxfordshire England41
9Dumfries and Galloway Scotland40
10Portsmouth England25
11Dorset England19
12Devon England18
13Kent England16
14St. Helens England13
15Nottinghamshire England9
1,822 England107 Scotland5 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 41 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,944
Peak month
February
Counties with records
41
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Branta ruficollis
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
347
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Convention on Migratory Species, Birds Directive, EU wildlife trade (CITES) annexes
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Anseriformes
Family
Anatidae
Genus
Branta
Name with authority
Branta ruficollis (Pallas, 1769)
Described
1769
Contributing datasets
5

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q187852 · GBIF 5232451