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Whinchat

Saxicola rubetra

28,416Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
118Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb9
Mar23
Apr2,380
May4,129
Jun1,450
Jul1,062
Aug6,314
Sep10,323
Oct2,130
Nov88
Dec22

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1East Riding of Yorkshire England1,838
2Shetland Islands —1,400
3Kent England1,263
4Norfolk England1,186
5Isles of Scilly England997
6Suffolk England944
7Dorset England882
8Cambridgeshire England854
9Highland Scotland772
10Surrey England666
11Cornwall England552
12Argyll and Bute Scotland479
13North Yorkshire England402
14Devon England392
15Essex England351
22,489 England4,446 Scotland1,395 Wales73 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 118 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
28,416
Peak month
September
Counties with records
118
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Saxicola rubetra
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
18,345
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Saxicola
Name with authority
Saxicola rubetra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q155869 · GBIF 2492521