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Western Jackdaw

Coloeus monedula

1,084,740Records since 2000
MayPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan94,959
Feb76,889
Mar100,482
Apr119,022
May127,925
Jun96,579
Jul67,700
Aug73,349
Sep87,291
Oct91,960
Nov73,228
Dec72,779

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1South Ayrshire Scotland73,171
2Cambridgeshire England56,903
3Norfolk England51,158
4Surrey England32,759
5Cornwall England31,037
6Suffolk England30,203
7Kent England26,072
8Oxfordshire England25,652
9Lincolnshire England17,495
10Dorset England16,477
11East Riding of Yorkshire England16,355
12Cheshire East England16,244
13North Yorkshire England15,873
14Essex England13,932
15Gloucestershire England13,760
879,387 England156,176 Scotland40,514 Wales8,262 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
1,084,740
Peak month
May
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Coloeus monedula
Also known as
Jackdaw
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
189,365
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Corvidae
Genus
Coloeus
Name with authority
Coloeus monedula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25345384 · GBIF 6100954