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Blyth's Pipit (Anthus godlewskii)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks October · Wagtails and Pipits · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Blyth's Pipit (Anthus godlewskii)
Tisha Mukherjee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Blyth's Pipit: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Blyth's Pipit has been recorded in 13 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in October.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SV81Isles of Scilly, England252007 to 2024unverified
SV91Isles of Scilly, England292006 to 2021unverified
ST55Somerset, England202016 to 2017unverified
SE31Wakefield, England802014 to 2015unverified
SV90Isles of Scilly, England82015unverified
SM72Pembrokeshire, Wales12014unverified
SW32Cornwall, England52004 to 2007unverified
HU31Shetland Islands, Scotland12007unverified
HZ27Shetland Islands, Scotland12007unverified
HU40Shetland Islands, Scotland72006unverified
SH12Gwynedd, Wales12005unverified
SK79Nottinghamshire, England232002 to 2003unverified
NK14Aberdeenshire, Scotland12000unverified

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