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Spectacled Warbler (Curruca conspicillata)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks June · Sylviid Warblers and Allies · BOU category A

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

Spectacled Warbler (Curruca conspicillata)
El Golli Mohamed, 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.

Spectacled Warbler: 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.

Spectacled Warbler has been recorded in 4 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in June.

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

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SY66Dorset, England12017unverified
TF84Norfolk, England662014unverified
TM46Suffolk, England72008unverified
SV81Isles of Scilly, England162000unverified

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.