What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Firecrest been recorded?

Regulus ignicapilla occurrence evidence comes from 80,701 records in 25 countries and territories, from 1907 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Firecrest
Firecrest — Photo (display-sized rendition): Alexis Lours · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesRegulidaeRegulus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

80,701 records across 25 countries and territories, 1907–2026.

Regulus ignicapilla · GBIF taxon key 6093527

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.

11 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

19072026

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

Where Firecrest has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Firecrest. 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 42,040
Belgium 21,817
Spain 9,493
Luxembourg 3,314
Austria 3,158
United Kingdom 537
Andorra 81
Greece 52
Germany 49
France 44
Italy 28
Russia 26
Portugal 20
Czechia 11
Serbia 8
Denmark 5
Netherlands 5
Morocco 3
Guernsey 2
Romania 2
Switzerland 1
Croatia 1
Ireland 1
Poland 1
Türkiye 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.