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Where does the Water Pipit live?

Anthus spinoletta has 423,442 records in 92 countries and territories, from 1833 to 2026. Most records come from France.

Water Pipit
Water Pipit — Zeynel Cebeci / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMotacillidaeAnthus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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
France 86,890
Spain 71,576
Netherlands 43,815
Belgium 24,762
Israel 18,175
Italy 16,361
United Kingdom 16,313
Germany 13,491
Austria 12,819
Sweden 12,657
Switzerland 12,049
Portugal 11,068
Denmark 10,944
United Arab Emirates 9,154
Türkiye 7,834
China 6,924
Georgia 5,349
Greece 4,886
Russia 3,168
Bulgaria 2,870
Kuwait 2,245
India 1,902
Iran 1,807
Czechia 1,690
Poland 1,677
Luxembourg 1,510
Slovenia 1,492
Norway 1,475
Mongolia 1,444
Romania 1,212
Serbia 1,129
Azerbaijan 1,025
Hungary 971
Cyprus 924
Croatia 905
Andorra 829
Slovakia 829
Kazakhstan 781
Armenia 679
Kyrgyzstan 570

Showing the top 40 of 92 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.