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Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks May · Cardinals and Allies · BOU category AE

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

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)
Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 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.

Indigo Bunting: 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.

Indigo Bunting has been recorded in 3 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in May.

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

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
NZ46South Tyneside, England532024unverified
SV80Sea, off Isles of Scilly132020unverified
SW86Cornwall, England12011unverified

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.