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Where does the Common Snipe live?

Gallinago gallinago has 2,356,747 records in 168 countries and territories, from 1753 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Snipe
Common Snipe — TRinaud / CC BY 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeGallinago

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
Sweden 554,071
United Kingdom 256,323
Netherlands 255,100
Denmark 190,687
Norway 180,119
France 149,382
Spain 117,799
Belgium 94,364
Finland 58,656
Taiwan 51,749
India 50,851
Germany 45,177
Portugal 44,456
Iceland 41,359
Israel 23,740
Estonia 21,742
Poland 21,272
Italy 15,999
Ireland 15,319
Russia 13,581
United Arab Emirates 12,556
Türkiye 9,965
United States 9,854
China 9,602
Czechia 8,376
Switzerland 8,353
Japan 8,090
Austria 7,958
Thailand 5,367
Greece 5,353
Hong Kong 5,184
Hungary 3,457
Ukraine 3,419
Bulgaria 2,999
Oman 2,938
Canada 2,457
Cyprus 2,214
Morocco 2,130
Lithuania 1,974
Kenya 1,963

Showing the top 40 of 168 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.