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Rosy Starling

Pastor roseus

1,860Records since 2000
JunePeak month
56Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan103
Feb64
Mar108
Apr21
May38
Jun524
Jul91
Aug76
Sep227
Oct482
Nov80
Dec45

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Isles of Scilly England237
2Cornwall England177
3Dorset England169
4East Riding of Yorkshire England106
5Shetland Islands —106
6Norfolk England97
7Cambridgeshire England64
8South Ayrshire Scotland57
9Kent England50
10Suffolk England49
11Devon England41
12Leeds England36
13Lincolnshire England35
14Somerset England28
15Pembrokeshire Wales24
1,502 England286 Scotland66 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 56 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,860
Peak month
June
Counties with records
56
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Pastor roseus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
67
Conservation designations
Bern Convention
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Sturnidae
Genus
Pastor
Name with authority
Pastor roseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
7

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q20823352 · GBIF 5845386