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Penduline Tit (Remiz pendulinus)Where and when to see it in the UK

Winter visitor · reporting peaks January to February · Penduline Tits · BOU category A

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

Penduline Tit (Remiz pendulinus)
Ferran Pestaña, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peak months
Penduline Tit: 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.

Penduline Tit has been recorded in 48 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (2%) in records to 2026. Winter visitor in the UK. Its strongest squares are in England and Wales. Reporting peaks in January to February.

Conservation status: Not Evaluated (IUCN Red List, NE)
View on the IUCN Red List
Relative to this species' best squares (how classes are calculated)
Very high
100% or more of visits
High
3% to 100%
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 90%<1%High
February 100%<1%Moderate
March 61%<1%Low
April 21%<1%Low
May 0%<1%Very high
June 0%<1%Insufficient records
July 0%<1%Insufficient records
August 0%<1%Insufficient records
September 0%<1%Insufficient records
October 14%<1%Low
November 73%<1%Moderate
December 76%<1%High

Squares with the highest reporting rate in January

SquareWhereShare of visitsClass
SO70Gloucestershire, England100%Very high
ST47North Somerset, England100%Very high
ST58South Gloucestershire, England100%Very high
TL37Cambridgeshire, England100%Very high
ST35Somerset, England42%High
SO82Gloucestershire, England20%High
ST23Somerset, England18%High
SO81Gloucestershire, England16%High
SJ68Warrington, England1%Moderate
SX98Devon, England<1%Moderate

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