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Where does the Goldcrest live?

Regulus regulus has 3,984,730 records in 86 countries and territories, from 1743 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Goldcrest
Goldcrest — Francis C. Franklin / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesRegulidaeRegulus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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
Sweden 1,340,756
Finland 552,046
United Kingdom 382,564
Poland 315,875
Netherlands 272,885
Norway 190,642
Denmark 170,947
France 163,810
Åland Islands 155,355
Belgium 85,534
Germany 79,740
Italy 32,312
Ireland 30,887
Spain 25,429
Estonia 25,242
Russia 24,200
Portugal 18,819
Czechia 16,881
Austria 13,783
Switzerland 10,076
Isle of Man 8,629
Iceland 5,507
Ukraine 4,946
China 4,695
Türkiye 4,432
South Korea 4,340
Hungary 3,591
Lithuania 3,539
Japan 3,490
Luxembourg 3,395
Slovakia 3,035
Bulgaria 2,757
India 2,609
Serbia 2,598
Slovenia 2,151
Greece 2,111
Belarus 1,999
Croatia 1,975
Latvia 1,763
Romania 1,406

Showing the top 40 of 86 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.