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Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva)Where and when to see it in the UK

Passage migrant · reporting peaks September · Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies · BOU category A

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

Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva)
Åsa Berndtsson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peak months
Red-breasted Flycatcher: 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.

Red-breasted Flycatcher has been recorded in 132 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (4%) in records to 2026. Passage migrant in the UK. Its strongest squares are in England, Scotland and Wales. Reporting peaks in September.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List
Relative to this species' best squares (how classes are calculated)
Very high
8% or more of visits
High
3% to 8%
Moderate
<1% to 3%
Low
under <1%
Surveyed, not recorded
at least 20 qualifying visits, no record
Insufficient records
too few visits to say
Lighter fill
Few visits, lower confidence
Small dot
Occasional: a single record, or out of season

Seasonality

Reporting rate by month, relative to the peak month
MonthRelative to peakShare of visitsTypical class
January 0%<1%Insufficient records
February 0%<1%Insufficient records
March 0%<1%Insufficient records
April 0%<1%Low
May 7%<1%Very high
June 6%<1%Very high
July 0%<1%Very high
August 4%<1%Low
September 100%<1%High
October 82%<1%Very high
November 7%<1%Very high
December 1%<1%Moderate

Squares with the highest reporting rate in September

SquareWhereShare of visitsClass
HP51Shetland Islands, Scotland100%Very high
HU28Shetland Islands, Scotland100%Very high
NF73Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland100%Very high
NH98Highland, Scotland100%Very high
NJ90Aberdeen City, Scotland100%Very high
NU22Northumberland, England100%Very high
NZ28Northumberland, England100%Very high
SY07Sea, off Devon100%Very high
TM33Suffolk, England100%Very high
TM59Suffolk, England100%Very high

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