What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Bank Vole been recorded?

Myodes glareolus occurrence evidence comes from 6,491 records in 35 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Bank Vole
Bank Vole — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
MammaliaRodentiaCricetidaeMyodes

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

6,491 records across 35 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Myodes glareolus · GBIF taxon key 5706764

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

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: August. 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

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

Where Bank Vole has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Bank Vole. 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 2,555
Luxembourg 1,008
Hungary 637
Germany 436
United Kingdom 304
Ireland 284
Ukraine 204
Austria 144
Bulgaria 139
Belgium 133
France 78
Norway 76
Slovenia 73
Denmark 68
Russia 66
Serbia 54
Croatia 44
Switzerland 39
Finland 29
Czechia 20
Bosnia & Herzegovina 19
Montenegro 17
North Macedonia 12
Türkiye 9
Netherlands 8
Spain 7
ZZ 7
Italy 4
Poland 4
Kosovo 4
Andorra 2
Estonia 2
Jersey 2
Romania 2
Slovakia 1

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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.