🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Gyrfalcon live?

Falco rusticolus has 25,825 records in 57 countries and territories, from 1822 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

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
Sweden 10,603
Norway 5,666
Netherlands 2,612
Denmark 1,905
United States 799
Greenland 565
Canada 545
Iceland 409
Russia 332
France 276
United Kingdom 209
Spain 191
Belgium 175
Finland 167
Germany 163
Italy 145
Greece 129
Poland 127
Ukraine 110
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 86
Portugal 58
Romania 50
Ireland 45
Hungary 39
Austria 38
Belarus 37
Croatia 36
Bulgaria 34
Latvia 33
Estonia 31
Czechia 30
Lithuania 27
Serbia 23
Bosnia & Herzegovina 19
Slovakia 18
Switzerland 15
Moldova 13
Türkiye 10
North Macedonia 9
Slovenia 6

Showing the top 40 of 57 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.