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Red-necked Phalarope

Phalaropus lobatus

1,950Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
46Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr14
May281
Jun266
Jul91
Aug294
Sep770
Oct205
Nov28
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1East Riding of Yorkshire England201
2Cambridgeshire England193
3Norfolk England149
4Suffolk England139
5Lincolnshire England119
6Kent England112
7Rutland England72
8Essex England61
9North Yorkshire England43
10Somerset England40
11Cornwall England39
12Gloucestershire England30
13Bath and North East Somerset England25
14Oxfordshire England24
15Shetland Islands —23
1,824 England48 Scotland70 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 46 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,950
Peak month
September
Counties with records
46
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Phalaropus lobatus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
75
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species, Birds Directive, Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), UK BAP priority species, Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Phalaropus
Name with authority
Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
6

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q206840 · GBIF 5739290