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Where does the Common Buzzard live?

Buteo buteo has 7,541,433 records in 137 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

Common Buzzard
Common Buzzard — caroline legg / CC BY 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeButeo

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Netherlands 1,445,928
Sweden 1,201,833
Denmark 852,578
France 750,536
United Kingdom 644,108
Germany 490,060
Belgium 444,260
Spain 420,109
Portugal 171,979
Norway 156,998
Italy 123,239
Czechia 74,065
Georgia 56,553
Poland 56,319
Israel 54,912
Russia 52,998
Finland 52,921
Estonia 49,261
Austria 45,797
Türkiye 43,403
Switzerland 39,618
Greece 36,744
Bulgaria 33,277
Ireland 25,360
South Africa 21,997
Hungary 21,318
Ukraine 18,366
Serbia 16,845
Romania 14,245
Croatia 14,091
Slovakia 12,551
Luxembourg 9,393
Slovenia 8,829
South Korea 6,708
Lithuania 6,197
India 5,542
Belarus 4,701
Kenya 3,838
Latvia 3,505
Isle of Man 3,483

Showing the top 40 of 137 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.