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Where does the Gudgeon live?

Gobio gobio has 986,342 records in 45 countries and territories, from 1650 to 2026. Most records come from France.

Gudgeon
Gudgeon β€” Viridiflavus at Dutch Wikipedia (Original text: Piet Spaans) / CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataCypriniformesCyprinidaeGobio

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
France 846,590
Belgium 66,768
Netherlands 24,221
Germany 18,193
United Kingdom 14,432
Switzerland 4,776
Sweden 3,134
Poland 3,129
Denmark 1,236
Italy 1,205
Ukraine 1,153
Luxembourg 497
Spain 210
Lithuania 147
Czechia 113
Russia 102
Norway 64
Austria 62
Romania 53
Uzbekistan 53
Greece 33
Finland 31
Estonia 19
North Macedonia 18
Belarus 16
Slovakia 16
TΓΌrkiye 15
Serbia 11
Ireland 7
Hungary 4
Liechtenstein 4
Bulgaria 3
China 3
Croatia 3
Iran 3
Latvia 3
ZZ 3
North Korea 2
Kazakhstan 2
Portugal 2

Showing the top 40 of 45 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.