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Woodchat Shrike

Lanius senator

1,274Records since 2000
MayPeak month
43Counties with records
Near ThreatenedIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar5
Apr295
May399
Jun210
Jul17
Aug65
Sep176
Oct107
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England173
2Isles of Scilly England144
3Halton England78
4Dorset England70
5Shetland Islands —69
6Cambridgeshire England53
7Norfolk England49
8North Yorkshire England46
9Suffolk England44
10East Riding of Yorkshire England39
11Essex England35
12East Lothian Scotland31
13Somerset England29
14Pembrokeshire Wales25
15Lincolnshire England18
1,092 England129 Scotland53 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 43 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,274
Peak month
May
Counties with records
43
IUCN Red List
Near Threatened
Scientific name
Lanius senator
Group
Birds
Conservation designations
Bern Convention
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Laniidae
Genus
Lanius
Name with authority
Lanius senator Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
4

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q235052 · GBIF 2492867