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Where does the Rock Pipit live?

Anthus petrosus has 568,661 records in 53 countries and territories, from 1823 to 2026. Most records come from Norway.

Rock Pipit
Rock Pipit — Photo: MPF · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMotacillidaeAnthus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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
Norway 140,413
Sweden 137,545
United Kingdom 100,182
Denmark 67,494
Netherlands 52,704
Ireland 15,721
Isle of Man 15,485
France 15,069
Belgium 5,796
Finland 5,387
Germany 5,090
Spain 1,996
Faroe Islands 1,306
Poland 1,075
Jersey 606
Portugal 541
Åland Islands 411
Guernsey 237
Russia 206
Estonia 202
Italy 156
Latvia 149
Greece 124
Lithuania 118
Ukraine 101
Iceland 98
Romania 53
Czechia 39
Hungary 39
Belarus 37
Croatia 36
Austria 35
Bulgaria 34
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 30
Serbia 23
Bosnia & Herzegovina 19
Slovakia 19
Switzerland 15
Moldova 13
Türkiye 11

Showing the top 40 of 53 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.