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Where does the Common Nightingale live?

Luscinia megarhynchos has 1,210,599 records in 116 countries and territories, from 1836 to 2026. Most records come from France.

Common Nightingale
Common Nightingale — Warrieboy / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMuscicapidaeLuscinia

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
France 418,210
Spain 326,326
Netherlands 116,631
Germany 74,484
Portugal 63,379
Belgium 26,601
Bulgaria 23,460
United Kingdom 22,018
Türkiye 14,387
Greece 13,427
Italy 12,821
Czechia 12,126
Israel 8,591
Hungary 8,223
Poland 6,452
Serbia 6,324
Sweden 5,527
Switzerland 5,240
Croatia 4,408
Slovakia 3,877
Morocco 3,561
Austria 3,353
Luxembourg 2,763
United Arab Emirates 2,185
Iran 1,988
Denmark 1,750
Romania 1,723
Slovenia 1,631
Cyprus 1,564
Kenya 1,463
Kazakhstan 1,339
Georgia 1,250
Ukraine 1,228
North Macedonia 1,129
Russia 963
Azerbaijan 865
Albania 624
Norway 597
China 545
Montenegro 507

Showing the top 40 of 116 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.