What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common Raven been recorded?

Corvus corax occurrence evidence comes from 838,694 records in 63 countries and territories, from 1742 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Raven
Common Raven — Photo (display-sized rendition): Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesCorvidaeCorvus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

838,694 records across 63 countries and territories, 1742–2026.

Corvus corax · GBIF taxon key 2482492

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: January.

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.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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

17422026

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

Where Common Raven has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common Raven. 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 771,527
United States 43,076
Canada 8,148
Spain 5,899
Austria 2,834
Germany 2,050
United Kingdom 2,031
Belgium 1,044
Russia 620
Ukraine 262
Mexico 221
Luxembourg 214
Andorra 147
Mongolia 101
Iceland 45
Italy 43
Estonia 42
France 39
Finland 32
Poland 29
Czechia 28
Greece 28
Ireland 21
Denmark 18
Romania 18
Norway 16
Netherlands 15
Morocco 14
Greenland 13
ZZ 13
Switzerland 12
China 12
Belarus 10
Albania 6
Croatia 6
El Salvador 6
Bulgaria 5
Türkiye 5
Armenia 4
Portugal 4

Showing the top 40 of 63 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.