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Where does the European Roller live?

Coracias garrulus has 241,825 records in 131 countries and territories, from 1700 to 2026. Most records come from France.

European Roller
European Roller — Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE / CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCoraciiformesCoraciidaeCoracias

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 68,141
South Africa 32,092
Spain 26,342
India 15,631
Israel 9,511
Türkiye 8,044
Kenya 6,153
Hungary 5,970
Georgia 5,579
Romania 5,120
Bulgaria 4,419
Tanzania 4,220
Portugal 3,642
Iran 3,590
United Arab Emirates 3,295
Greece 3,274
Cyprus 2,641
Sweden 2,620
Kazakhstan 2,536
Russia 2,445
Ukraine 2,256
Italy 1,915
Oman 1,490
Morocco 1,166
Kuwait 1,074
Uzbekistan 1,036
Kyrgyzstan 945
Netherlands 866
Armenia 765
Zimbabwe 757
United Kingdom 720
Azerbaijan 703
Botswana 645
Croatia 631
Algeria 594
China 586
Mozambique 567
Denmark 544
Namibia 539
Tajikistan 490

Showing the top 40 of 131 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.