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Crag Martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks November · Swallows · BOU category AF

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

Crag Martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris)
Martien Brand, CC BY 2.0, 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.

Crag Martin: 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.

Crag Martin has been recorded in 7 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in November.

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

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SV81Isles of Scilly, England52022unverified
TR34Kent, England322020unverified
TR23Kent, England102020unverified
HY41Orkney Islands, Scotland12020unverified
HZ27Shetland Islands, Scotland32018unverified
SK37Derbyshire, England572015unverified
TA27East Riding of Yorkshire, England82013 to 2014unverified

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.