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Rook

Corvus frugilegus

495,913Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan43,554
Feb36,206
Mar46,004
Apr59,006
May53,494
Jun36,940
Jul28,825
Aug33,896
Sep42,191
Oct45,152
Nov35,878
Dec32,989

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1South Ayrshire Scotland68,793
2Norfolk England31,127
3Cambridgeshire England29,725
4Suffolk England19,719
5Cornwall England16,629
6Kent England12,186
7Oxfordshire England11,450
8Lincolnshire England10,441
9Gloucestershire England8,781
10North Yorkshire England8,283
11East Riding of Yorkshire England8,245
12Highland Scotland8,028
13Dorset England7,998
14Essex England6,973
15Devon England6,882
367,536 England111,389 Scotland10,692 Wales5,985 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
495,913
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Corvus frugilegus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
87,424
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
Genus
Corvus
Name with authority
Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
45

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25386 · GBIF 2482513