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Where does the Red Kite live?

Milvus milvus has 2,019,476 records in 74 countries and territories, from 1744 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Red Kite
Red Kite — Thomas Kraft (ThKraft) / CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeMilvus

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 459,442
Spain 302,044
Denmark 298,096
Germany 258,918
United Kingdom 258,803
France 257,260
Switzerland 39,536
Netherlands 37,972
Portugal 30,629
Belgium 16,389
Czechia 14,000
Austria 10,597
Italy 9,395
Luxembourg 6,940
Poland 6,893
Slovakia 2,947
Norway 2,893
Ireland 2,596
Lithuania 495
Estonia 429
Greece 376
Hungary 332
Croatia 280
Türkiye 265
Finland 246
Liechtenstein 235
Russia 193
Ukraine 191
Morocco 140
Bulgaria 113
Andorra 95
Slovenia 95
Latvia 93
Serbia 87
Romania 61
Belarus 60
Iceland 56
Isle of Man 38
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 29
Bosnia & Herzegovina 26

Showing the top 40 of 74 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.