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Where does the Common Cuckoo live?

Cuculus canorus has 2,069,691 records in 150 countries and territories, from 1742 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo — Andy Morffew from Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, UK / CC BY 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCuculiformesCuculidaeCuculus

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
Sweden 381,853
Netherlands 311,503
France 301,556
Denmark 168,037
United Kingdom 110,580
Germany 106,478
Spain 101,991
Finland 98,496
Norway 78,951
Belgium 77,303
Portugal 33,472
Russia 31,471
India 24,390
Estonia 19,485
Poland 19,337
South Korea 17,077
Austria 16,211
Czechia 15,408
Bulgaria 14,599
China 13,536
Italy 9,564
Ukraine 8,709
Ireland 8,574
Türkiye 8,390
Hungary 7,926
Switzerland 7,712
Japan 5,884
Greece 5,803
Nepal 4,623
Romania 4,540
Serbia 4,472
Slovakia 3,930
Israel 3,825
Croatia 3,141
Georgia 2,899
Mongolia 2,477
Kazakhstan 2,403
Lithuania 2,306
Iran 2,299
Belarus 1,751

Showing the top 40 of 150 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.