🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the red deer live?

Cervus elaphus has 670,558 records in 70 countries and territories, from 1574 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

red deer
red deer — Lviatour / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataMammaliaArtiodactylaCervidaeCervus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. 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
Spain 246,412
Switzerland 129,424
France 106,805
United States 35,342
Netherlands 32,888
United Kingdom 29,032
Denmark 18,674
Austria 14,986
Norway 11,970
Canada 6,208
Germany 5,582
Italy 5,492
Sweden 5,013
Poland 4,571
Estonia 4,408
Liechtenstein 2,366
Australia 2,102
Ukraine 1,910
New Zealand 1,865
Portugal 783
Russia 621
Belgium 551
Ireland 545
Luxembourg 508
Hungary 221
Argentina 211
Slovakia 211
Belarus 199
Romania 193
Croatia 189
Czechia 167
Mongolia 163
Slovenia 135
South Korea 132
Lithuania 112
China 99
Greece 64
Iran 48
Bulgaria 41
Türkiye 37

Showing the top 40 of 70 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.