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Yellow-billed Loon

Gavia adamsii

826Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
21Counties with records
Near ThreatenedIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan153
Feb61
Mar99
Apr181
May90
Jun19
Jul1
Aug9
Sep11
Oct94
Nov56
Dec52

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Shetland Islands —118
2Moray Scotland74
3Aberdeenshire Scotland67
4Lincolnshire England49
5Torbay England49
6Cornwall England45
7Orkney Islands Scotland32
8Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland31
9Kent England19
10East Lothian Scotland15
11Fife Scotland14
12Highland Scotland12
13Norfolk England9
14East Riding of Yorkshire England7
15Suffolk England4
376 England446 Scotland2 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 21 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
826
Peak month
April
Counties with records
21
IUCN Red List
Near Threatened
Scientific name
Gavia adamsii
Also known as
Yellow-billed Diver
Group
Birds
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Convention on Migratory Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Gaviiformes
Family
Gaviidae
Genus
Gavia
Name with authority
Gavia adamsii (G.R.Gray, 1859)
Described
1859
Contributing datasets
7

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q208328 · GBIF 2481957