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Red Phalarope

Phalaropus fulicarius

3,944Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
78Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan131
Feb38
Mar21
Apr77
May22
Jun7
Jul11
Aug228
Sep1,506
Oct1,199
Nov543
Dec161

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England379
2Norfolk England377
3Cambridgeshire England241
4Somerset England112
5Dorset England106
6East Riding of Yorkshire England92
7Kent England91
8North Yorkshire England84
9Portsmouth England78
10Suffolk England69
11Surrey England69
12Lincolnshire England67
13Rutland England64
14Oxfordshire England62
15Sefton England58
3,422 England200 Scotland232 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,944
Peak month
September
Counties with records
78
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Phalaropus fulicarius
Also known as
Grey Phalarope
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
189
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Convention on Migratory Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Phalaropus
Name with authority
Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q208335 · GBIF 5229390