What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Eurasian Coot been recorded?

Fulica atra occurrence evidence comes from 873,104 records in 69 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Coot — Photo (display-sized rendition): Alexis Lours · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesGruiformesRallidaeFulica

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

873,104 records across 69 countries and territories, 1790–2026.

Fulica atra · GBIF taxon key 2474377

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: April.

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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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

17902026

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

Where Eurasian Coot has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Eurasian Coot. 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 566,962
Belgium 271,057
Austria 13,156
Germany 6,019
United Kingdom 5,025
Luxembourg 2,373
Netherlands 2,372
South Korea 2,014
Australia 943
Spain 733
Russia 366
China 304
France 249
Ukraine 234
Albania 137
Denmark 111
New Zealand 109
Italy 104
Czechia 98
Switzerland 97
Japan 75
Mongolia 58
India 56
Poland 48
Estonia 46
Taiwan 36
Portugal 35
Romania 31
Finland 25
Ireland 22
Israel 21
Belarus 20
Türkiye 20
Bulgaria 18
Greece 12
Lithuania 11
Armenia 9
Croatia 9
Iran 9
Latvia 8

Showing the top 40 of 69 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.