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Where does the Meadow Pipit live?

Anthus pratensis has 3,376,071 records in 93 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Meadow Pipit
Meadow Pipit — Andreas Trepte / CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMotacillidaeAnthus

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 609,392
Netherlands 583,313
United Kingdom 441,205
Norway 346,692
Spain 273,434
Denmark 270,926
France 229,123
Portugal 106,238
Belgium 99,172
Finland 87,915
Germany 56,461
Iceland 39,706
Ireland 37,897
Italy 33,391
Estonia 23,863
Israel 21,268
Isle of Man 18,465
Poland 13,383
Türkiye 10,896
Greece 9,764
Russia 7,577
Czechia 7,036
Austria 4,991
Switzerland 4,116
Morocco 3,844
Cyprus 3,716
Ukraine 2,987
Hungary 2,509
Lithuania 2,333
Palestine 2,131
Slovakia 1,711
Iran 1,485
Azerbaijan 1,473
Åland Islands 1,410
United Arab Emirates 1,332
Slovenia 1,281
Croatia 1,269
Bulgaria 1,250
Georgia 1,081
Faroe Islands 992

Showing the top 40 of 93 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.