What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Reed Bunting been recorded?

Emberiza schoeniclus occurrence evidence comes from 952,178 records in 41 countries and territories, from 1849 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Reed Bunting
Reed Bunting — Photo (display-sized rendition): caroline legg · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesEmberizidaeEmberiza

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

952,178 records across 41 countries and territories, 1849–2026.

Emberiza schoeniclus · GBIF taxon key 2491557

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: September.

11 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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. 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

18492026

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

Where Reed Bunting has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Reed Bunting. 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 790,551
Belgium 104,147
Spain 27,009
Luxembourg 21,051
United Kingdom 4,282
Austria 1,920
Germany 1,299
Netherlands 853
Russia 452
Ukraine 224
Denmark 46
Estonia 45
France 45
Greece 37
South Korea 31
China 25
Japan 24
Italy 21
Norway 17
Mongolia 15
Finland 14
Romania 12
Belarus 8
Czechia 8
Afghanistan 6
Ireland 6
Iran 4
Switzerland 3
Latvia 3
Poland 3
Türkiye 3
Armenia 2
Kazakhstan 2
Lithuania 2
Andorra 1
Azerbaijan 1
Bulgaria 1
Pakistan 1
Portugal 1
Slovenia 1

Showing the top 40 of 41 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.