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Where does the Eurasian Coot live?

Fulica atra has 5,938,263 records in 131 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Coot — Alexis Lours / CC BY 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesGruiformesRallidaeFulica

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Netherlands 1,093,561
Australia 718,334
United Kingdom 658,440
Sweden 598,018
Denmark 446,485
France 439,781
Spain 326,258
Belgium 295,922
Germany 257,399
India 200,428
Norway 91,070
Portugal 64,081
Italy 62,908
Taiwan 58,184
Switzerland 51,997
Japan 48,340
Russia 44,378
Israel 42,885
Poland 42,821
Czechia 39,074
Türkiye 36,133
Austria 32,537
China 31,630
New Zealand 24,766
Finland 21,430
South Korea 16,675
Ukraine 16,429
Bulgaria 15,523
Greece 15,453
Estonia 14,135
Ireland 11,198
Serbia 10,687
Hungary 8,462
Romania 8,182
Croatia 7,584
Morocco 5,975
United Arab Emirates 5,948
Belarus 5,280
Cyprus 5,264
Luxembourg 4,404

Showing the top 40 of 131 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.