What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common Toad been recorded?

Bufo bufo occurrence evidence comes from 41,827 records in 43 countries and territories, from 1879 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Toad
Common Toad — Photo (display-sized rendition): Tythatguy1312 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AmphibiaAnuraBufonidaeBufo

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

41,827 records across 43 countries and territories, 1879–2026.

Bufo bufo · GBIF taxon key 5217160

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-21. 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.

7 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.

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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

18792026

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

Where Common Toad has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common Toad. 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 27,185
Germany 3,861
Austria 3,442
United Kingdom 2,695
Belgium 1,301
Luxembourg 1,272
Denmark 466
Italy 307
Russia 212
Japan 186
Finland 124
France 108
Poland 103
Czechia 93
Switzerland 89
Netherlands 83
Estonia 39
Spain 37
Ukraine 30
United States 17
Croatia 16
Hungary 15
Lithuania 13
Norway 13
Taiwan 13
Greece 12
Romania 12
Slovenia 11
Türkiye 9
Morocco 8
Slovakia 8
Bosnia & Herzegovina 7
Dominican Republic 7
Montenegro 7
Belarus 6
Bulgaria 4
Albania 3
Algeria 3
South Korea 3
Serbia 3

Showing the top 40 of 43 places.

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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.