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Gyr Falcon (Falco rusticolus)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks January · Falcons and Caracaras · BOU category AEF

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

Gyr Falcon (Falco rusticolus)
Falco_rusticolus_white.jpg: Ólafur Larsen derivative work: Bogbumper (talk), 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.

Gyr Falcon: 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.

Gyr Falcon has been recorded in 15 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in January.

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

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
ST17Cardiff, Wales22021unverified
SJ48Liverpool, England22018 to 2019unverified
ST35Somerset, England12018unverified
NF76Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland22016unverified
NC14Highland, Scotland12014unverified
TL44Cambridgeshire, England12013unverified
SS48Swansea, Wales162009 to 2010unverified
TM46Suffolk, England12010unverified
SW97Cornwall, England22003unverified
NR26Argyll and Bute, Scotland142002unverified
SH28Isle of Anglesey, Wales72002unverified
NR35Argyll and Bute, Scotland52002unverified
NF09Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland12002unverified
NR27Argyll and Bute, Scotland12002unverified
NF19Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland12000unverified

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