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White-throated Dipper

Cinclus cinclus

32,318Records since 2000
MayPeak month
100Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan2,867
Feb2,529
Mar3,214
Apr4,207
May4,589
Jun2,738
Jul1,854
Aug1,992
Sep1,999
Oct2,163
Nov1,618
Dec1,678

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland2,742
2Cumbria England1,977
3North Yorkshire England1,848
4Devon England1,637
5City of Edinburgh Scotland1,084
6Aberdeenshire Scotland876
7Powys Wales829
8Midlothian Scotland634
9Perth and Kinross Scotland626
10Sheffield England493
11Stockport England493
12Cheshire East England491
13Gloucestershire England475
14Gwynedd Wales434
15Cornwall England427
17,786 England10,449 Scotland3,626 Wales380 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 100 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
32,318
Peak month
May
Counties with records
100
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Cinclus cinclus
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
36,686
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cinclidae
Genus
Cinclus
Name with authority
Cinclus cinclus (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 Q201831 · GBIF 2495093