🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Common Quail live?

Coturnix coturnix has 511,346 records in 141 countries and territories, from 1575 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

AnimaliaChordataAvesGalliformesPhasianidaeCoturnix

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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 99,314
France 90,592
Sweden 84,124
Portugal 51,370
Netherlands 27,004
South Africa 25,808
Denmark 21,188
Norway 16,606
Belgium 10,506
Germany 8,292
United Kingdom 8,128
Israel 7,451
Italy 5,260
Bulgaria 4,581
Russia 3,726
Ukraine 3,637
Türkiye 3,380
Austria 3,243
Czechia 2,941
Poland 2,929
India 2,706
Hungary 2,192
Estonia 1,807
Switzerland 1,518
United Arab Emirates 1,507
Greece 1,425
Morocco 1,395
Finland 1,311
Georgia 1,022
Slovakia 1,020
Egypt 799
Cyprus 791
Croatia 727
Romania 677
Kazakhstan 613
Luxembourg 604
Kenya 602
Serbia 437
Kuwait 427
Iran 416

Showing the top 40 of 141 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.