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Where does the Montagu's Harrier live?

Circus pygargus has 483,550 records in 129 countries and territories, from 1810 to 2026. Most records come from France.

Montagu's Harrier
Montagu's Harrier — Hari K Patibanda / CC BY 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeCircus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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 105,698
Spain 71,564
Sweden 45,887
Mali 39,115
Netherlands 27,372
Georgia 26,038
Denmark 24,267
India 20,121
Belgium 14,906
Portugal 13,583
Russia 10,283
Germany 6,028
Mauritania 6,024
Poland 5,837
Israel 5,705
Estonia 5,284
Morocco 4,931
Kenya 3,380
Ukraine 3,102
Czechia 3,065
Türkiye 2,834
Algeria 2,574
Greece 2,483
Bulgaria 2,475
Tanzania 2,261
Burkina Faso 2,126
Guinea 2,102
Austria 1,860
United Arab Emirates 1,631
Croatia 1,389
Hungary 1,373
South Africa 1,299
Italy 1,045
Senegal 857
Lithuania 810
Ethiopia 781
Uganda 761
Norway 737
Gambia 708
Belarus 705

Showing the top 40 of 129 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.