What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common Chiffchaff been recorded?

Phylloscopus collybita occurrence evidence comes from 1,217,503 records in 62 countries and territories, from 1842 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Chiffchaff
Common Chiffchaff — Photo (display-sized rendition): Alexis Lours · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesPhylloscopidaePhylloscopus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,217,503 records across 62 countries and territories, 1842–2026.

Phylloscopus collybita · GBIF taxon key 2493091

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.

8 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

18422026

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

Where Common Chiffchaff has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common Chiffchaff. 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 795,509
Belgium 289,647
Luxembourg 54,240
Spain 44,031
Austria 14,952
United Kingdom 9,426
Germany 7,383
Netherlands 634
Russia 521
Ukraine 133
France 132
Andorra 118
India 103
Denmark 81
Italy 81
Greece 56
Portugal 45
Norway 39
Afghanistan 37
Czechia 35
Egypt 34
Serbia 33
Israel 26
Iran 23
Türkiye 23
Jordan 15
Kuwait 14
Romania 14
Senegal 12
Poland 11
Estonia 9
Finland 8
Ethiopia 7
Armenia 6
Ireland 6
Bulgaria 5
Switzerland 5
Croatia 5
Gambia 4
Oman 4

Showing the top 40 of 62 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.