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Sedge Warbler

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus

139,834Records since 2000
MayPeak month
126Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb16
Mar252
Apr28,182
May49,956
Jun26,694
Jul17,963
Aug10,116
Sep3,492
Oct222
Nov18
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England12,475
2Suffolk England9,068
3Norfolk England8,384
4East Riding of Yorkshire England6,500
5Kent England5,781
6Lincolnshire England4,615
7Oxfordshire England3,151
8South Ayrshire Scotland2,594
9Rutland England2,351
10Cornwall England2,187
11Nottinghamshire England2,106
12Essex England2,006
13Somerset England1,942
14Pembrokeshire Wales1,915
15Gloucestershire England1,645
117,879 England15,482 Scotland5,382 Wales1,029 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
139,834
Peak month
May
Counties with records
126
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
105,664
Conservation designations
Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Acrocephalidae
Genus
Acrocephalus
Name with authority
Acrocephalus schoenobaenus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q27236 · GBIF 2493129