🐦 Bird Migration Map

When do pink-footed geese arrive in and leave the UK?

A winter visitor in the records: numbers build from mid September and stay high until about mid March.

When do pink-footed geese arrive in the UK?
In the GBIF records, UK numbers build from mid September.
When do pink-footed geese leave the UK?
They stay common in the records until about mid March.
Where do pink-footed geese go in summer?
In June and July the strongest signal in the effort-adjusted GBIF records is around Norway. The globe shows the breeding range month by month.

Pink-footed goose in the UK, month by month

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Bars: this species’ share of all UK bird records in GBIF (CC0/CC BY 4.0 only), by month, scaled to the peak month. Based on 84,665 UK records (occurrence search API, country=GB, weekly). Dates come from sightings, not a survey, so treat them as a guide.

See the pink-footed goose migration on the 3D globe →

About the pink-footed goose

The pink-footed goose is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark. The name is often abbreviated in colloquial usage to "pinkfoot". …

From the Wikipedia article “Pink-footed goose” (revision 1357275825), CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened at a sentence end. Winter/summer areas: country containing the monthly hotspot of effort-adjusted GBIF records, using Natural Earth boundaries (public domain).

Other UK winter visitors: see the full list with arrival and departure dates.