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Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus)Where and when to see it in the UK

Status not yet classified · reporting peaks May · Falcons and Caracaras · BOU category A

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

Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus)
Jutta Luft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peak months
Red-footed 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.

Red-footed Falcon has been recorded in 88 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (3%) in records to 2026. Its strongest squares are in England, Wales and Scotland. Reporting peaks in May.

Conservation status: Vulnerable (IUCN Red List, VU)
View on the IUCN Red List
Relative to this species' best squares (how classes are calculated)
Very high
100% or more of visits
High
7% to 100%
Moderate
<1% to 7%
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 2%<1%Low
May 100%<1%Very high
June 71%<1%Moderate
July 46%<1%High
August 3%<1%Very high
September 28%<1%Very high
October 4%<1%Very high
November 0%<1%Insufficient records
December 0%<1%Insufficient records

Squares with the highest reporting rate in May

SquareWhereShare of visitsClass
NT25Midlothian, Scotland100%Very high
SM84Pembrokeshire, Wales100%Very high
ST52Somerset, England100%Very high
SU50Hampshire, England100%Very high
SW61Cornwall, England100%Very high
SW71Cornwall, England100%Very high
SY66Dorset, England100%Very high
SY98Dorset, England100%Very high
TA09North Yorkshire, England100%Very high
TG30Norfolk, England100%Very high

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.