The Src family kinase Lyn is identified as a physiological redox sensor that mediates the initial attraction of leukocytes to wounds in zebrafish larvae. It is known that hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) — often an ingredient in over-the-counter medicines for cleaning cuts — is generated at injured tissue and that it attracts immune cells (neutrophils) that promote wound healing. How immune cells sense the H2O2 secreted from wounds was not known. This study identifies an Src family kinase, Lyn, as a redox sensor that mediates initial neutrophil recruitment. Exposure to H2O2 directly oxidizes a single cysteine residue is indispensable in Lyn, and inhibition of Lyn attenuates neutrophil wound recruitment. Tissue wounding induces the rapid recruitment of leukocytes1. Wounds and tumours—a type of ‘unhealed wound’2—generate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) through an NADPH oxidase (NOX). This extracellular H2O2 mediates recruitment of leukocytes, particularly the first responders of innate immunity, neutrophils, to injured tissue3,4,5,6. However, the sensor that neutrophils use to detect the redox state at wounds is unknown. Here we identify the Src family kinase (SFK) Lyn as a redox sensor that mediates initial neutrophil recruitment to wounds in zebrafish larvae. Lyn activation in neutrophils is dependent on wound-derived H2O2 after tissue injury, and inhibition of Lyn attenuates neutrophil wound recruitment. Inhibition of SFKs also disrupted H2O2-mediated chemotaxis of primary human neutrophils. In vitro analysis identified a single cysteine residue, C466, as being responsible for direct oxidation-mediated activation of Lyn. Furthermore, transgenic-tissue-specific reconstitution with wild-type Lyn and a cysteine mutant revealed that Lyn C466 is important for the neutrophil wound response and downstream signalling in vivo. This is the first identification, to our knowledge, of a physiological redox sensor that mediates leukocyte wound attraction in multicellular organisms.