What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Gray Wagtail been recorded?

Motacilla cinerea occurrence evidence comes from 340,010 records in 76 countries and territories, from 1870 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Gray Wagtail
Gray Wagtail — Photo (display-sized rendition): Herwig Winter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesMotacillidaeMotacilla

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

340,010 records across 76 countries and territories, 1870–2026.

Motacilla cinerea · GBIF taxon key 2490310

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: April.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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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.

Records over time

18702026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Gray Wagtail has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Gray Wagtail. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 245,371
Belgium 65,619
Spain 10,256
South Korea 5,937
Austria 5,128
Luxembourg 2,240
United Kingdom 2,213
Germany 1,561
China 323
Russia 213
Andorra 109
Mongolia 104
Netherlands 98
Czechia 87
France 68
Japan 65
Philippines 61
Italy 50
Portugal 49
India 44
Thailand 44
Greece 39
Malaysia 38
Serbia 30
Laos 25
Ireland 24
Taiwan 19
Indonesia 16
Nepal 13
Uganda 13
Iran 11
Kazakhstan 10
Romania 10
Switzerland 8
Hong Kong 8
Türkiye 8
Jordan 7
Poland 6
Myanmar 5
Armenia 4

Showing the top 40 of 76 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.