Regulus regulus
Photograph: Cliff Watkinson, CC BY-SA, vía iNaturalist
Occasional. Seven records: At Gibraltar on 17.05.67 (2 birds), 19.04.73, 15.12.73, 10.02.91 and 20.11.01; at Guadacorte estate on 28.11.92, and at Sotogrande on 15.12.92.
Like a Firecrest but without supercilium, eye-stripe and grey border to cheeks. Males have orangey crown stripe, yellow in females. The nearest breeding population is in the central Iberian Peninsula.
Bioestrecho editorial text. Last revised: 9 September 2026.
Frank Sengpiel, CC BY · 2021
Andrey Gulivanov, CC BY · 2020
Andrey Gulivanov, CC BY · 2020
harry beaman, CC BY · 2026
Philipp Pavelka, CC BY · 2021
Philipp Pavelka, CC BY · 2021
Recordings with the licence checked file by file, served from this domain. Those marked “Strait” were recorded within the area. Each carries its author and licence.
York, England, 23 August 2026. Smriti S., CC BY, via iNaturalist
Botanic, Dublin, 3 February 2026. Richard Littauer, CC BY, via iNaturalist
Hoek van Holland, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, 1 November 2023. Jochem verweij, CC BY-SA, via xeno-canto
The catalogues, Andalusian and Spanish, are what binds; the Red Book assesses the Spanish population with IUCN criteria, and the global Red List is the context.
Andalusian Catalogue: Junta de Andalucía, list of 24 April 2025. Spanish Catalogue: MITECO, table of 30 June 2025. Red Book: SEO/BirdLife, 2021 (Annex I). IUCN: via GBIF, 6 September 2026. Red Book and IUCN categories are assessments; catalogue categories are legal obligations.
Common Firecrest9–9 cm · Resident · overlapping sizeSpecies of the same genus that also occur here, ordered by how close they are in size. Being relatives does not mean they are confused in the field, but that is where the doubts start: compare size and season.
