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Where does the Bank Vole live?

Myodes glareolus has 207,268 records in 44 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Poland.

Bank Vole
Bank Vole — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataMammaliaRodentiaCricetidaeMyodes

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
Poland 46,370
Switzerland 31,133
Netherlands 21,545
France 19,271
United Kingdom 17,896
Finland 15,683
Belgium 9,913
Germany 8,615
Norway 7,224
Sweden 6,308
Russia 5,890
Denmark 4,818
Austria 2,503
Ukraine 2,034
Spain 1,863
Luxembourg 1,293
Estonia 1,208
Ireland 1,098
Hungary 661
Italy 436
Liechtenstein 375
Bulgaria 161
Andorra 135
Slovenia 127
United States 112
Czechia 107
Croatia 85
Slovakia 84
Åland Islands 81
Serbia 56
Romania 46
Bosnia & Herzegovina 19
Montenegro 18
Canada 17
Latvia 13
Türkiye 13
North Macedonia 12
ZZ 12
Belarus 10
Lithuania 8

Showing the top 40 of 44 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.