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Where does the Great Crested Grebe live?

Podiceps cristatus has 3,674,546 records in 112 countries and territories, from 1575 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

Great Crested Grebe
Great Crested Grebe — JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPodicipediformesPodicipedidaePodiceps

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
Netherlands 769,551
Sweden 604,899
United Kingdom 405,031
France 324,786
Denmark 313,788
Belgium 199,797
Germany 164,535
Spain 150,363
Norway 103,802
Australia 84,078
Russia 50,908
Italy 47,991
Switzerland 38,730
Finland 36,102
Czechia 30,567
Poland 29,943
South Africa 27,251
Portugal 23,958
Austria 23,766
China 23,581
Türkiye 22,980
Estonia 21,254
Japan 16,829
India 13,555
Bulgaria 13,270
South Korea 12,237
Ukraine 11,171
Greece 10,730
New Zealand 9,930
Ireland 9,104
Taiwan 7,396
Hungary 6,534
Croatia 5,942
Romania 5,712
Belarus 4,917
Slovenia 3,980
Georgia 3,916
Lithuania 3,803
Serbia 3,706
Slovakia 3,531

Showing the top 40 of 112 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.