When it is recorded
Jan0
Feb0
Mar17
Apr27
May197
Jun176
Jul202
Aug278
Sep245
Oct48
Nov4
Dec0
GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).
Where it is recorded
| # | County | Nation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cambridgeshire | England | 183 | |
| 2 | Norfolk | England | 80 | |
| 3 | Kent | England | 66 | |
| 4 | Oxfordshire | England | 47 | |
| 5 | Rutland | England | 46 | |
| 6 | Essex | England | 43 | |
| 7 | Lincolnshire | England | 32 | |
| 8 | Suffolk | England | 29 | |
| 9 | East Riding of Yorkshire | England | 28 | |
| 10 | Dorset | England | 26 | |
| 11 | Sefton | England | 26 | |
| 12 | Gloucestershire | England | 25 | |
| 13 | Northamptonshire | England | 20 | |
| 14 | Angus | Scotland | 18 | |
| 15 | Surrey | England | 17 |
1,133 England47 Scotland14 Wales
Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 49 counties in all.
About this species
- Records since 2000
- 1,194
- Peak month
- August
- Counties with records
- 49
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- Scientific name
- Chlidonias leucopterus
- Group
- Birds
- Most recorded in
- Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Kent
- Conservation designations
- Bern Convention, Convention on Migratory Species
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae
- Genus
- Chlidonias
- Name with authority
- Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815)
- Described
- 1815
- Contributing datasets
- 3
Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q241753 · GBIF 2481120