What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Eurasian Hobby been recorded?

Falco subbuteo occurrence evidence comes from 323,731 records in 51 countries and territories, from 1844 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Eurasian Hobby
Eurasian Hobby — Photo (display-sized rendition): Shantanu Kuveskar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesFalconiformesFalconidaeFalco

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

323,731 records across 51 countries and territories, 1844–2026.

Falco subbuteo · GBIF taxon key 2481035

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

6 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: 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.

Records over time

18442026

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

Where Eurasian Hobby has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Eurasian Hobby. 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 259,938
Belgium 57,899
Austria 2,464
Spain 888
Georgia 745
United Kingdom 616
Germany 378
Luxembourg 142
South Korea 131
Ukraine 128
Russia 122
Netherlands 55
Uganda 44
France 20
Italy 20
Romania 14
Mongolia 12
Israel 10
Jordan 10
Portugal 9
China 7
Denmark 6
South Africa 6
Finland 5
Tanzania 5
Zimbabwe 5
Gambia 4
Kazakhstan 4
Rwanda 4
Senegal 4
Albania 3
Bulgaria 3
Estonia 3
Greece 3
India 3
Japan 3
Andorra 2
Iran 2
Kuwait 2
Botswana 1

Showing the top 40 of 51 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.