🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Red-backed Shrike live?

Lanius collurio has 1,289,841 records in 126 countries and territories, from 1838 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Red-backed Shrike
Red-backed Shrike — Antonios Tsaknakis / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesLaniidaeLanius

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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 291,714
France 199,680
Denmark 99,050
Netherlands 80,301
Germany 73,044
South Africa 66,458
Finland 57,502
Norway 39,729
Spain 36,056
Poland 30,081
Türkiye 28,586
Russia 24,620
Bulgaria 23,926
Israel 23,404
Greece 18,035
Austria 16,940
Czechia 15,639
Estonia 12,636
Ukraine 12,366
Hungary 10,941
Romania 8,871
Georgia 7,102
Italy 7,088
Croatia 7,082
United Kingdom 6,819
Switzerland 6,655
Åland Islands 6,434
Serbia 5,469
Belgium 4,845
Namibia 4,520
Kenya 4,338
Slovakia 3,853
Botswana 3,666
Slovenia 3,414
Zimbabwe 3,112
Luxembourg 2,926
United Arab Emirates 2,455
Kuwait 2,445
Cyprus 2,439
Zambia 2,369

Showing the top 40 of 126 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.