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Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica)Where and when to see it in the UK

Vagrant · reporting peaks July · Swifts · BOU category A

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

Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica)
Adam Jackson, CC0, 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.

Chimney Swift: 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.

Chimney Swift has been recorded in 7 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Vagrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in July.

Conservation status: Vulnerable (IUCN Red List, VU)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
NO29Aberdeenshire, Scotland12023unverified
NB56Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland12014unverified
SJ68Warrington, England32005 to 2008unverified
SJ58Halton, England12008unverified
SV91Isles of Scilly, England42001 to 2005unverified
NU14Northumberland, England22005unverified
SH68Isle of Anglesey, Wales12005unverified

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.