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Where does the Eurasian Sparrowhawk live?

Accipiter nisus has 2,938,262 records in 115 countries and territories, from 1575 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Sparrowhawk — Dion Art / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeAccipiter

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 648,214
Denmark 377,311
United Kingdom 293,430
France 257,546
Netherlands 227,560
Norway 197,459
Belgium 158,620
Germany 125,616
Finland 116,553
Spain 112,972
Israel 41,433
Russia 30,794
Italy 30,477
Portugal 29,438
Türkiye 24,554
Estonia 22,742
Poland 22,331
India 20,282
Ireland 15,397
Czechia 14,622
Greece 13,228
Austria 12,857
China 12,033
Åland Islands 10,428
Switzerland 9,737
Georgia 9,700
Bulgaria 9,658
Ukraine 8,715
Hungary 6,787
Japan 5,497
Taiwan 5,304
South Korea 4,773
Isle of Man 4,456
Iran 4,085
Serbia 4,041
Croatia 3,337
Morocco 3,290
Romania 3,051
Palestine 2,922
Slovakia 2,914

Showing the top 40 of 115 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.