What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common Buzzard been recorded?

Buteo buteo occurrence evidence comes from 1,734,138 records in 62 countries and territories, from 1845 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Buzzard
Common Buzzard — Photo (display-sized rendition): caroline legg · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeButeo

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,734,138 records across 62 countries and territories, 1845–2026.

Buteo buteo · GBIF taxon key 2480537

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: March.

12 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: March. 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

18452026

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

Where Common Buzzard has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common Buzzard. 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 1,174,308
Belgium 462,172
Georgia 48,017
Germany 12,578
Spain 9,735
Austria 9,312
South Korea 5,857
Luxembourg 4,755
United Kingdom 4,367
France 634
Russia 420
Italy 204
Romania 181
Netherlands 177
Czechia 143
Ukraine 121
Portugal 107
Uganda 102
Denmark 96
Switzerland 88
Israel 87
Andorra 82
Greece 75
Estonia 58
South Africa 58
Poland 56
Bulgaria 44
Mongolia 39
Hungary 20
Türkiye 20
Croatia 18
Slovenia 18
Ireland 14
Kuwait 14
Albania 12
Finland 12
Jordan 12
Japan 12
Belarus 11
Armenia 9

Showing the top 40 of 62 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.