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Where does the Pied Avocet live?

Recurvirostra avosetta has 1,267,420 records in 133 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

Pied Avocet
Pied Avocet — Photo: Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesRecurvirostridaeRecurvirostra

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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

17902026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Netherlands 360,296
Sweden 174,011
Denmark 128,931
United Kingdom 120,108
France 94,290
Spain 85,862
Taiwan 55,658
South Africa 43,316
Belgium 39,485
Portugal 29,816
India 19,876
China 10,845
Germany 10,689
Italy 7,593
Hong Kong 7,523
Greece 7,254
Israel 6,832
Namibia 5,164
Austria 4,842
Türkiye 4,645
Kenya 3,933
Hungary 3,833
Bulgaria 3,393
Ukraine 3,163
Tanzania 2,622
United Arab Emirates 2,620
Russia 2,420
Mongolia 2,365
Morocco 1,901
Romania 1,879
Norway 1,842
Czechia 1,567
Thailand 1,422
Iran 1,355
Slovenia 1,140
Poland 914
Senegal 893
Kazakhstan 827
Serbia 777
Estonia 687

Showing the top 40 of 133 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.