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Red-footed Falcon

Falco vespertinus

1,755Records since 2000
MayPeak month
34Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr24
May1,023
Jun364
Jul146
Aug58
Sep113
Oct27
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England330
2Suffolk England306
3Cambridgeshire England208
4Norfolk England139
5Essex England85
6Somerset England58
7Lincolnshire England55
8Cornwall England47
9Surrey England33
10Blackpool —23
11Cumbria England20
12North Yorkshire England17
13Oxfordshire England15
14Dorset England14
15Nottinghamshire England13
1,726 England24 Scotland5 Wales

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
1,755
Peak month
May
Counties with records
34
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Falco vespertinus
Group
Birds
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species, Bern Convention, EU wildlife trade (CITES) annexes
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Falconiformes
Family
Falconidae
Genus
Falco
Name with authority
Falco vespertinus Linnaeus, 1766
Described
1766
Contributing datasets
4

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q179625 · GBIF 2481062