What gets recorded
Six million of the nine and a half million records are birds.
Data access
Use the machine-readable JSON record or the flattened CSV download or the compact Markdown version.
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| Series | Period or category | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Birds | 6,170,417 | records |
| Value | Insects | 1,993,619 | records |
| Value | Flowering plants | 1,000,646 | records |
| Value | Mammals | 184,365 | records |
| Value | Fungi | 87,733 | records |
| Value | Bryophytes | 24,144 | records |
| Value | Amphibians | 19,497 | records |
| Value | Reptiles | 5,396 | records |
Methodology
Occurrence records by species group. Only mutually exclusive groups are shown: the NBN's own hierarchy nests Birds and Mammals inside Animals and Insects inside Arthropods, so charting the raw facet would count the same record several times. That birds dominate says as much about who does the recording as about what lives here.
Provenance
- Source
- NBN Atlas
- Cadence
- annual
- Engine
- comparison
- Licence
- Mixed open licences, per record