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Pacific Diver (Gavia pacifica)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks January · Loons · BOU category A

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

Pacific Diver (Gavia pacifica)
Tim Bowman, USFWS Originally uploaded by User Kingturtle on en.wikipedia, Public domain, 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.

Pacific Diver: 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.

Pacific Diver has been recorded in 19 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
SW52Cornwall, England42016 to 2025unverified
NO30Fife, Scotland192023unverified
NO40Fife, Scotland12023unverified
HU69Shetland Islands, Scotland12023unverified
SS78Neath Port Talbot, Wales1472021 to 2022unverified
SW53Cornwall, England492007 to 2021unverified
SW42Cornwall, England242007 to 2020unverified
SW43Cornwall, England92010 to 2020unverified
SW72Cornwall, England12020unverified
SW93Cornwall, England52013 to 2019unverified
SW83Cornwall, England42018 to 2019unverified
SX05Cornwall, England12018unverified
NZ29Northumberland, England562017unverified
NU20Northumberland, England382017unverified
SE36North Yorkshire, England772007 to 2016unverified
H78Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland42014unverified
ST58South Gloucestershire, England12009unverified
SN02Pembrokeshire, Wales152007 to 2008unverified
SE35North Yorkshire, England102007unverified

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