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Where does the Peregrine Falcon live?

Falco peregrinus has 2,844,625 records in 231 countries and territories, from 1575 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Peregrine Falcon
Peregrine Falcon — Mykola Swarnyk / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesFalconiformesFalconidaeFalco

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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
United States 1,135,595
Sweden 215,353
Netherlands 203,061
Canada 200,417
Denmark 127,960
France 114,491
United Kingdom 103,265
Spain 85,502
Australia 82,999
Norway 79,980
Belgium 72,468
Mexico 40,155
Taiwan 32,136
India 31,616
Germany 30,890
Portugal 23,572
South Africa 16,501
Italy 15,716
Finland 13,536
Costa Rica 13,108
Argentina 12,664
Chile 9,611
China 8,377
Ireland 7,962
Peru 7,290
Israel 6,984
Panama 6,711
Russia 6,672
Türkiye 6,531
Belize 6,411
Isle of Man 6,299
Colombia 5,705
Greece 4,865
Thailand 4,775
Brazil 4,491
Austria 4,265
South Korea 3,943
Ecuador 3,886
Poland 3,649
Puerto Rico 3,468

Showing the top 40 of 231 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.