What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Meadow Pipit been recorded?

Anthus pratensis occurrence evidence comes from 688,905 records in 39 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Meadow Pipit
Meadow Pipit — Photo (display-sized rendition): Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesMotacillidaeAnthus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

688,905 records across 39 countries and territories, 1790–2026.

Anthus pratensis · GBIF taxon key 2490266

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: April.

11 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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.

Records over time

17902026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Meadow Pipit has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Meadow Pipit. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 587,027
Belgium 89,488
United Kingdom 4,383
Spain 3,778
Austria 1,766
Luxembourg 792
Netherlands 743
Germany 487
Russia 98
France 47
Norway 47
Iceland 37
Ireland 35
Ukraine 33
Portugal 27
Estonia 17
Denmark 16
Italy 15
Greece 14
Andorra 9
Finland 6
Iran 6
Türkiye 5
Lithuania 4
United States 3
Armenia 2
Cyprus 2
Faroe Islands 2
Poland 2
Romania 2
Tunisia 2
Algeria 1
Israel 1
Isle of Man 1
Iraq 1
Jersey 1
South Korea 1
Kuwait 1
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.