What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Eurasian Kestrel been recorded?

Falco tinnunculus occurrence evidence comes from 889,730 records in 86 countries and territories, from 1835 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Eurasian Kestrel
Eurasian Kestrel — Photo (display-sized rendition): Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesFalconiformesFalconidaeFalco

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

889,730 records across 86 countries and territories, 1835–2026.

Falco tinnunculus · GBIF taxon key 9616058

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.

12 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.

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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

18352026

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

Where Eurasian Kestrel has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Eurasian Kestrel. 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 654,129
Belgium 188,822
Austria 9,921
Spain 8,739
Germany 8,621
South Korea 7,969
Luxembourg 3,860
United Kingdom 3,770
France 655
Netherlands 621
Ukraine 405
Russia 287
Italy 241
Georgia 188
Portugal 149
Czechia 146
Israel 114
China 107
Romania 96
Andorra 88
Mongolia 87
Jordan 67
Greece 62
Denmark 56
India 48
Cabo Verde 46
Egypt 38
Uganda 37
Iran 34
Switzerland 33
Senegal 24
Poland 17
Morocco 16
Western Sahara 15
Croatia 10
Jersey 10
Japan 10
Albania 9
Cyprus 9
Hungary 9

Showing the top 40 of 86 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.